Desulfurococcus

Desulfurococcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Clade:	"Proteoarchaeota"
Kingdom:	Thermoproteati
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Desulfurococcales
Family:	Desulfurococcaceae
Genus:	Desulfurococcus Zillig & Stetter 1983
Type species
Desulfurococcus mucosus Zillig & Stetter 1983
Species
D. amylolyticus D. fermentans D. kamchatkensis D. mobilis D. mucosus "D. saccharovorans"

Desulfurococcus is a genus of archaeans in the family Desulfurococcaceae. ^[1]

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Desulfurococcus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.

Further reading

• Perevalova AA, Svetlichny VA, Kublanov IV, et al. (May 2005). "Desulfurococcus fermentans sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon from a Kamchatka hot spring, and emended description of the genus Desulfurococcus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (3): 995–9. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63378-0 . PMID   15879224.
• Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO (July 1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (3): 657–60. doi: 10.1099/00207713-47-3-657 . PMID   9226896.
• Zillig W, Stetter KO, Prangishvilli D, Schafer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P (1982). "Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales". Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C3: 304–317.

External links

• Type strain of Desulfurococcus mobilis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase