Desulfitobacterium

Desulfitobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Clostridiales
Family:
Desulfitobacteriaceae
Genus:
Desulfitobacterium

Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994[1]
Type species
Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans
Utkin, Woese & Wiegel 1994
Species

Desulfitobacterium is a genus of Gram-positive, strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria from the family of Peptococcaceae.[1][2][3] Desulfitobacterium species have low GC-contents.[3]

  1. ^ a b LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. ^ UniProt
  3. ^ a b Stanley, Falkow; Eugene, Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz, Schleifer; Erko, Stackebrandt (2006). Bacteria : Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria (3. ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25494-3.