Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum

Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Aquificae
Class: Aquificae
Order: Aquificales
Family: Desulfurobacteriaceae
Genus: Desulfurobacterium
Species: Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum
L'Haridon et al. 1998

Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum is a species of autotrophic, sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is the type species of its genus, being thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped, with type strain BSAT (= DSM 11699T).[1]

References

  1. L'Haridon, S.; Cilia, V.; Messner, P.; Raguenes, G.; Gambacorta, A.; Sleytr, U. B.; Prieur, D.; Jeanthon, C. (1998). "Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel autotrophic, sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (3): 701–711. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9734024. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-3-701.

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