Ethanol production efficiency of an anaerobic hemicellulolytic thermophilic bacterium, strain NTOU1, isolated from a marine shallow hydrothermal vent in Taiwan.

A new extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, gram-negative bacterium, strain NTOU1, was enriched and isolated from acidic marine hydrothermal fluids off Gueishandao island in Taiwan with 0.5% starch and 0.5% maltose as carbon sources.