Desulfovirgula

Desulfovirgula is a genus of sulfate reducing, anaerobic, endospore-forming, Gram-positive, thermophilic, motile, rod-shaped bacteria, isolated from an underground mining site in an area of Japan characterized by high geothermal activity. Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi is the sole species in the genus. Electron acceptors that this organism can utilize include sulfate, sulfite, thiosulfate and elemental sulfur, while H2 (in the presence of CO2) and carboxylic acids can be utilized as electron donors.[1] Up to now there is only one species of this genus known Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi[2]

Desulfovirgula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:
Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:
Desulfovirgula

References
  1. Kaksonen AH, Spring S, Schumann P, Kroppenstedt RM, Puhakka JA (2007). "Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducer isolated from a geothermal underground mine in Japan". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 57 (1): 98–102. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64655-0. PMID 17220449.
  2. LPSN bacterio.net
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