Desulfitobacterium

Desulfitobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Desulfitobacteriaceae
Genus:	Desulfitobacterium; Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994
Type species
	Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans; Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994
Species
	D. chlororespirans; D. dehalogenans; "D. dichloroeliminans"; "D. elongatum"; D. hafniense; D. metallireducens; "D. nosdiversum";

Desulfitobacterium is a genus of Gram-positive, strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria from the family Desulfitobacteriaceae. Desulfitobacterium species have low GC-contents.

Phylogeny

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024

120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226

Desulfitobacterium

Desulfitobacterium

D. metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002

"D. dichloroeliminans" De Wildeman et al. 2003

D. dehalogenans Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994

	D. chlororespirans Sanford et al. 2001

	D. hafniense Christiansen & Ahring 1996

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1 2 Schoch CL; et al. "Desulfitobacterium". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
↑ UniProt
1 2 Stanley, Falkow; Eugene, Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz, Schleifer; Erko, Stackebrandt (2006). Bacteria : Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria (3. ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25494-3.
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↑ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
↑ "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
↑ "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
↑ "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
↑ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.

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