bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.01.183566; this version posted July 2, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Desulfovibrio diazotrophica sp. nov., a sulphate reducing bacterium from 2 the human gut capable of nitrogen fixation 3 4 Lizbeth Sayavedra1,2,#, Tianqi Li1,2,3, Marcelo Bueno Batista4, Brandon K.B. Seah5, Catherine 5 Booth1, Qixiao Zhai3, Wei Chen3, Arjan Narbad1,2 6 1Gut Health and Microbes, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, 7 United Kingdom 8 2UK-China Joint Centre on Probiotic Bacteria, Norwich, United Kingdom and Wuxi, China 9 3State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and 10 Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China 11 4 Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, 12 Norwich, United Kingdom 13 5Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany 14 15 #Address correspondence to Lizbeth Sayavedra,
[email protected] 16 17 Running Head: D. diazotrophica can fix nitrogen 18 Keywords 19 Sulfate reduction; diazotroph; human gut microbiome 20 21 Abstract word count: 164 + 104 22 Text word count, not including Materials and Methods: 4,990 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.01.183566; this version posted July 2, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.