''Thauera humireducens'' is a

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 ...

, non-

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-forming,

humus In classical soil science, humus is the dark organic matter in soil that is formed by the decomposition of plant and animal matter. It is a kind of soil organic matter. It is rich in nutrients and retains moisture in the soil. Humus is the Lati ...

-reducing,

rod-shaped Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...

bacterium Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the ...

from the genus of

Thauera ''Thauera'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the family ''Zoogloeaceae'' of the order ''Rhodocyclales'' of the ''Betaproteobacteria ''Betaproteobacteria'' are a class of Gram-negative bacteria, and one of the six classes of the phylum ...

which was isolated from a

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Thauera humireducens'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodocyclaceae Bacteria described in 2013 {{betaproteobacteria-stub