Desulfobacteria

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Desulfobacteria
Stromatolites Volcanic Lake.jpg
Stromatolites next to a volcanic lake, found to harbor abundant Desulfobacterales
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Kingdom:
Pseudomonadati
Phylum:
Desulfobacterota
Class:
Desulfobacteria

Waite et al. 2020 [1]
Order [2]

The Desulfobacteria are a class of bacteria in the phylum Desulfobacterota. [3] They are strictly anaerobic respirators, using sulfate or nitrate as the terminal electron acceptors. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ A.C. Parte; et al. "Desulfobacteria". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  2. ↑ C.L. Schoch; et al. "Desulfobacteria". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  3. ↑ Waite, David W; Chuvochina, Maria; Pelikan, Claus; Parks, Donovan H; Yilmaz, Pelin; Wagner, Michael; Loy, Alexander; Naganuma, Takeshi; Nakai, Ryosuke; Whitman, William B; Hahn, Martin W; Kuever, Jan; Hugenholtz, Philip (2020-11-01). "Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5972–6016. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   33151140.
  4. ↑ Das, Surajit; Dash, Hirak Ranjan, eds. (2019). Microbial diversity in the genomic era. London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA: Elsevier/Academic Press. ISBN   978-0-12-814849-5. OCLC   1029206067.
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