''Thauera humireducens'' is a

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, 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 A bacillus (), also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found in many different taxonomic groups of bacteria. However, the name '' Bacil ...

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from the genus of

Thauera ''Thauera'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the family '' Zoogloeaceae'' of the order ''Rhodocyclales'' of the ''Betaproteobacteria''. The genus is named for the German microbiologist Rudolf Thauer Rudolf K. Thauer (born October 5, 1939) ...

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