''Desulfocapsa thiozymogenes'' is an 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 ...
bacterium. It
disproportionates
In chemistry, disproportionation, sometimes called dismutation, is a redox reaction in which one compound of intermediate oxidation state converts to two compounds, one of higher and one of lower oxidation state. The reverse of disproportionatio ...
elemental
sulfur
Sulfur ( American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphur ( Commonwealth spelling) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms ...
. It is the type species of its genus.
References
Further reading
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*Canfield, Donald E., and Bo Thamdrup. Aquatic geomicrobiology. Gulf Professional Publishing, 2005.
External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Desulfocapsa thiozymogenes'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Desulfobacterales
Bacteria described in 1997
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