Desulfocapsa

Desulfocapsa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class:	Desulfobulbia
Order:	Desulfobulbales
Family:	Desulfocapsaceae
Genus:	Desulfocapsa Janssen et al. 1997 [1]
Type species
Desulfocapsa thiozymogenes Janssen et al. 1997
Species [2]
D. sulfexigens D. thiozymogenes

Desulfocapsa is a bacterial genus from the family Desulfocapsaceae. ^{[1] [3]}

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 [4] [5] [6]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226 [7] [8] [9]
Desulfocapsa D. sulfexigens corrig. Finster et al. 2000 D. thiozymogenes Janssen et al. 1997	Desulfocapsa D. sulfexigens

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Desulfocapsa in LPSN ; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1 –D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
2. Schoch CL; et al. "Desulfocapsa". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
3. UniProt
4. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
5. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
6. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
7. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
8. "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
9. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.

Further reading

• Finster, Kai Waldemar; Kjeldsen, Kasper Urup; Kube, Michael; Reinhardt, Richard; Mussmann, Marc; Amann, Rudolf; Schreiber, Lars (15 April 2013). "Complete genome sequence of Desulfocapsa sulfexigens, a marine deltaproteobacterium specialized in disproportionating inorganic sulfur compounds". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 8 (1): 58–68. doi:10.4056/sigs.3777412. PMC   3739170 . PMID   23961312.
• editors, Don J. Brenner, Noel R. Krieg, James T. Staley (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN   0-387-29298-5.{{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
• Jens, Kallmeyer; Dirk, Wagner (2014). Microbial Life of the Deep Biosphere. Berlin: de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3110370676.