S. No. Genus Marker E-value 1 Syntrophomonas rpo -40 2 Syntrophothermus ssu; rpo -23; -20 3 Desulfatibacillum ssu; rpo -5; -19 4 Pelobacter ssu -65 5 Syntrophus ssu; rpo -9; -40.455 6 Syntrophobacter ssu -20

Table 2: Predicted presence of the syntrophic microbes based on protein homology with markergenes. The marker genes selected for obtaining the strains were Sigma Factor (rpo) and SmallSubunit (ssu).