“…10MeC 16:0 FA has been proposed to be characteristic of sulfatereducing bacteria (SRB) of the genera Desulfobacter and Desulfobacula, where it is found to make up various amounts of approximately 5 to 25% of the total lipids (4,15,32,33,45,51). Besides these sulfate reducers, 10MeC 16:0 FA is also occasionally, but generally in much smaller amounts, found in other bacteria; the literature reports its presence in several actinobacteria (6,12,23,31,41,56,58), in anammox bacteria and other planctomycetes (48,49), in an iron-reducing Geobacter species (34,57), in a Marinobacter species (55), and in the marine denitrifier Pseudomonas nautica (14). Several studies report the presence of 10MeC 16:0 FA in relation to the occurrence of anaerobic methane oxidation (AOM) coupled to sulfate reduction (1,2,7,17,26,39).…”