Thermodesulfobacterium commune

Thermodesulfobacterium commune is a species of sulfate-reducing bacteria. It is small, Gram-negative, straight rod-shaped, and obligately anaerobic, and has an optimum growth temperature of 70 °C (158 °F). Its type strain is YSRA-1.^[1]

Thermodesulfobacterium commune
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class:	Thermodesulfobacteria
Order:	Thermodesulfobacteriales
Family:	Thermodesulfobacteriaceae
Genus:	Thermodesulfobacterium
Species:	T. commune Zeikus et al. 1983
Binomial name
Thermodesulfobacterium commune

References

1. Zeikus, J. G.; Dawson, M. A.; Thompson, T. E.; Ingvorsen, K.; Hatchikian, E. C. (1983). "Microbial Ecology of Volcanic Sulphidogenesis: Isolation and Characterization of Thermodesulfobacterium commune gen. nov. and sp. nov". Microbiology. 129 (4): 1159–1169. doi:10.1099/00221287-129-4-1159. ISSN 1350-0872.

Further reading

• Hatchikian EC, Papavassiliou P, Bianco P, Haladjian J (September 1984). "Characterization of cytochrome c3 from the thermophilic sulfate reducer Thermodesulfobacterium commune". Journal of Bacteriology. 159 (3): 1040–6. doi:10.1128/JB.159.3.1040-1046.1984. PMC 215765. PMID 6090384.
• Yamane, Kunio; Hattori, Yoshiyuki; Ohtagaki, Hiroshi; Fujiwara, Kazuhiro (2011). "Microbial diversity with dominance of16S rRNA gene sequences with high GC contents at 74 and 98 1C subsurface crude oil deposits in Japan". FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 76 (2): 220–235. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01044.x. PMID 21223337.

External links

• LPSN
• "Thermodesulfobacterium commune". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Type strain of Thermodesulfobacterium commune at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase