Desulfitobacterium

Desulfitobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Desulfitobacteriia
Order:	Desulfitobacteriales
Family:	Desulfitobacteriaceae
Genus:	Desulfitobacterium Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994 [1]
Type species
Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994
Species [2]
D. chlororespirans D. dehalogenans "D. dichloroeliminans" D. hafniense D. metallireducens

Desulfitobacterium is a genus of Gram-positive, strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria from the family of Peptococcaceae. ^{[1] [3] [4]} Desulfitobacterium species have low GC-contents. ^[4]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). ^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 [5] [6] [7]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220 [8] [9] [10]
Desulfitobacterium D. metallireducens D. chlororespirans D. dehalogenans D. hafniense	Desulfitobacterium D. metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002 "D. dichloroeliminans" De Wildeman et al. 2003 D. dehalogenans Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994 D. chlororespirans Sanford et al. 2001 D. hafniense Christiansen & Ahring 1996

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Desulfitobacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
2. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Desulfitobacterium". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
3. UniProt
4. Stanley, Falkow; Eugene, Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz, Schleifer; Erko, Stackebrandt (2006). Bacteria : Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria (3. ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN   0-387-25494-3.
5. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
6. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
7. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
8. "GTDB release 09-RS220". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.
9. "bac120_r220.sp_labels". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.
10. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2024.

Further reading

• Paul De Vos; et al., eds. (2009). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN   978-0-387-68489-5.
• Granzow, Silke (1998). Isolierung und Charakterisierung eines neuen Tetrachlorethen dechlorierenden strikt anaeroben Bakteriums, Desulfitobacterium frappieri Stamm PCE-S. München: Utz, Wiss. ISBN   3-89675-388-6.
• Neilson, Alasdair H.; Allard, Ann-Sofie (2013). Organic chemicals in the environment mechanisms of degradation and transformation (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN   978-1-4398-2638-6.
• Hideaki Nojiri; Masataka Tsuda; Masao Fukuda; Yoichi Kamagata, eds. (2014). Biodegradative Bacteria How Bacteria Degrade, Survive, Adapt, and Evolve (Aufl. 2014 ed.). Tokyo: Springer Japan. ISBN   978-4-431-54520-0.
• Stamatelatou, Birgitte K.; Ahring, B. K.; Ahring, I.; Angelidaki, J.; Dolfing, L.; EUegaard, H. N.; Gavala, F.; Haagensen, A. S.; Mogensen, G.; Lyberatos, P. F.; Pind, J. E.; Schmidt, I. V.; Skiadas, K., eds. (2003). Biomethanation II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN   3-540-45838-7.
• Reineke, Spiros N.; Agathos, Walter, eds. (2002). Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN   94-010-0357-2.