Desulfurococcales
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The Desulfurococcales are an order of the Thermoprotei, part of the kingdom Archaea.[1] The order encompasses a number of genera which are all thermophilic, autotrophs which utilise chemical energy, typically by reducing sulfur compounds using hydrogen. [2]
References
- ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Desulfurococcales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Microbiology (Third ed.). Academic Press. 2009. pp. 341–356. doi:10.1016/B978-012373944-5.00049-3.
Further reading
Scientific journals
- Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 1): 7–76. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-1-7. PMID 11837318.
- Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO (1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47 (3): 657–660. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
Scientific books
- Huber H, Stetter KO (2001). "Order II. Desulfurococcales ord. nov.". In DR Boone, RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
- Reysenbach, A-L (2001). "Class I. Thermoprotei class. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
Scientific databases
External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Desulfurococcales
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Desulfurococcales
- Search Species2000 page for Desulfurococcales
- MicrobeWiki page for Desulfurococcales
- LPSN page for Desulfurococcales
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