Desulfurococcus

Desulfurococcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Thermoproteati
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Desulfurococcales
Family:	Desulfurococcaceae
Genus:	Desulfurococcus Zillig & Stetter 1983
Type species
Desulfurococcus mucosus Zillig & Stetter 1983
Species
D. amylolyticus D. fermentans D. kamchatkensis D. mobilis D. mucosus "D. saccharovorans"

Desulfurococcus is a genus of archaeans in the family Desulfurococcaceae.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

Further reading

• Perevalova AA, Svetlichny VA, Kublanov IV, et al. (May 2005). "Desulfurococcus fermentans sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon from a Kamchatka hot spring, and emended description of the genus Desulfurococcus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (3): 995–9. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63378-0. PMID 15879224.
• Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO (July 1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (3): 657–60. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
• Zillig W, Stetter KO, Prangishvilli D, Schafer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P (1982). "Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales". Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C3: 304–317.

External links

• Type strain of Desulfurococcus mobilis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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