''Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum'' is a species of
autotrophic,
sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea
hydrothermal vent. It is the type species of its genus, being
thermophilic
A thermophile is a type of extremophile that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though some of them are bacteria and fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earliest bact ...
, anaerobic,
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...
,
motile and rod-shaped, with type strain BSA
T (= DSM 11699
T).
References
Further reading
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*Kadish, Karl M., Kevin M. Smith, and
Roger Guilard. "Handbook of porphyrin science." World Scientific: Singapore 2012 (2010): 1-25.
External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Aquificota
Bacteria described in 1998
Thermophiles
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