Table. 1. Growth of bacterial isolates from Movile Cave on methylated amines with and without added carbon.
| Isolates | Phylogeny | Identity |
Growth on methylated amines |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (%) | MMA +C | DMA +C | TMA +C | MMA | DMA | TMA | ||
| Alphaproteobacteria | ||||||||
| 2W-7 | Methylobacterium extorquens | 100 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| LW-13 | Xanthobacter tagetidis | 100 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| A2-1D | Paracoccus yeei | 100 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| 2W-61 | Paracoccus yeei | 98 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| 2W-12 | Aminobacter niigataensis | 100 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| LW-1 | Catellibacterium caeni | 99 | + | − | + | + | + | + |
| 1M-11 | Mesorhizobium loti | 99 | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| A2-41x | Shinella yambaruensis | 98 | + | − | − | − | NA | NA |
| 1W-5 | Rhodobacter blasticus | 96 | + | + | + | − | − | − |
| O1 | Oleomonas sagaranensis | 98 | + | + | − | − | − | − |
| O3 | Oleomonas sagaranensis | 99 | + | − | − | − | − | − |
| Gammaproteobacteria | ||||||||
| 1W-58 | Acinetobacter johnsonii | 100 | + | + | + | − | − | − |
| 2W-62 | Acinetobacter lwoffii | 100 | + | + | − | − | − | − |
| 1W-57Y | Pseudomonas oleovorans | 99 | + | − | − | − | − | − |
| Betaproteobacteria | ||||||||
| A2-14M | Zoogloea caeni | 100 | + | + | + | − | − | − |
Abbreviations: C, carbon mixture; DMA, dimethylamine; MMA, monomethylamine; NA, not analysed; TMA, trimethylamine.
Carbon mixture consists of sucrose, glucose, fructose, glycerol, pyruvate and acetate. Carbon sources were supplied at 5 mM, nitrogen sources at 1 mM.