Table 1.
Growth yields (OD540nm/mol-C source) of methanotrophic bacteria grown in combinations of different carbon and nitrogen sources.
| Strain | Carbon (mmol) | Methane |
Methanol |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockwell | 0.5 | 188 (±7.98) | 149 (±13.2) | 138 (±9.44) | 29.7 (±13.8) |
| 1 | – | – | 169 (±50) | 70.5 (±6.75) | |
| 2 | 118 (±1.78) | 62.2 (±2.48) | 21.7 (±15.9) | 17.6 (±10.7) | |
| 2.5 | 133 (±1.88) | 75.8 (±12.7) | – | – | |
| WRRC1 | 0.5 | 210 (±9.51) | 185 (±7.5) | 98.3 (±51.8) | 60.1 (±39.6) |
| 1 | – | – | 121 (±8.44) | 73.7 (±6.4) | |
| 2 | 106 (±1.69) | 80.4 (±14.9) | 6.17 (±1.93) | 15.6 (±13.3) | |
| 2.5 | 86.0 (±6.42) | 49.3 (±2.89) | – | – | |
| OB3b | 0.5 | 123 (±10.2) | 144 (±26.8) | 19.5 (±1.71) | 120 (±15.7) |
| 1 | – | – | 121 (±45.9) | 116 (±5.14) | |
| 2 | 89.1 (±0.671) | 63.7 (±2.09) | 27.9 (±17.5) | 132 (±10.7) | |
| 2.5 | 95.5 (±3.12) | 65.1 (±7.68) | – | – | |
| BG8 | 0.5 | 159 (±12.7) | 151 (±7.56) | 123 (±10.2) | 144 (±26.8) |
| 1 | – | – | 414 (±17) | 415 (±17.3) | |
| 2 | 140 (±7.59) | 113 (±2.79) | 190 (±9) | 175 (±9.67) | |
| 2.5 | 127 (±0.327) | 120 (±4.01) | – | – | |
| FJG1 | 0.5 | 147 (±4.63) | 187 (±3.57) | 19.9 (±1.15) | 117 (±2.27) |
| 1 | – | – | 116 (±43.3) | 54.9 (±44.5) | |
| 2 | 137 (±0.283) | 104 (±6.65) | 36.2 (±5.1) | 73.5 (±11.3) | |
| 2.5 | 158 (±16.5) | 152 (±19.3) | – | – | |
Standard deviations of three technical replicates are reported in parentheses. Bold values are the maximum yields for each strain. Dashes indicate conditions that were not examined.