Thermosinus carboxydivorans

Thermosinus carboxydivorans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Division: Firmicutes
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Acidaminococcaceae
Genus: Thermosinus
Species: T. carboxydivorans
Binomial name
Thermosinus carboxydivorans
Sokolova et al. 2004

Thermosinus carboxydivorans is an anaerobic, thermophilic, Gram-negative, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium, the type species of its genus. It is facultatively carboxydotrophic, curved, motile, rod-shaped, with a length of 2.6–3 μm, a width of about 0.5 μm and lateral flagellation. Its type strain is Nor1T (=DSM 14886T =VKM B-2281T).[1]

References

  1. Sokolova, T. G. (2004). "Thermosinus carboxydivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic, thermophilic, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot pool of Yellowstone National Park". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54 (6): 2353–2359. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63186-0. ISSN 1466-5026.

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