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.[1]

Desulfovirgula
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:
Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:
Desulfovirgula

Kaksonen et al. 2007
Type species
Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi
Kaksonen et al. 2007
Species

D. thermocuniculi

Up to now (December 2021) Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi is the sole known species in the genus.[2]

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]

See also

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 lpsn.dsmz.de
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