Desulfotomaculum halophilum

Desulfotomaculum halophilum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Clostridiales
Family:	Peptococcaceae
Genus:	Desulfotomaculum
Species:	D. halophilum
Binomial name
Desulfotomaculum halophilum Tardy-Jacquenod et al. 1998

Desulfotomaculum halophilum is a halophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium. It is endospore-forming, long, straight to curved rod-shaped and with type strain SEBR 3139^T (= DSM 11559^T).[1]

References

1. Tardy-Jacquenod, C.; Magot, M.; Patel, B. K. C.; Matheron, R.; Caumette, P. (1998). "Desulfotomaculum halophilum sp. nov., a halophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from oil production facilities". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (2): 333–338. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-2-333. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9731271.

Further reading

• Adams, Michael W., et al., eds. Biochemistry and physiology of anaerobic bacteria. Springer, 2003.
• Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt; Rodolfo Quintero-Ramirez (18 September 2004). Petroleum Biotechnology: Developments and Perspectives. Elsevier. pp. 388–. ISBN 978-0-08-047371-0.
• Ronald M. Atlas (27 May 2004). Handbook of Microbiological Media, Third Edition. CRC Press. pp. 536–. ISBN 978-0-8493-1818-4.
• Larry L. Barton; W. Allan Hamilton (31 May 2007). Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria: Environmental and Engineered Systems. Cambridge University Press. pp. 553–. ISBN 978-0-521-85485-6.
• Paul Vos; George Garrity; Dorothy Jones; Noel R. Krieg; Wolfgang Ludwig; Fred A. Rainey; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; William B. Whitman (28 January 2011). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 3: The Firmicutes. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 990–. ISBN 978-0-387-68489-5.

External links

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