Fusibacter | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Clostridia |
Order: | Eubacteriales |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | Fusibacter Ravot et al. 1999[1] |
Type species | |
Fusibacter paucivorans Ravot et al. 1999
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Species[2] | |
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Fusibacter is a genus of bacteria within the phylum Bacillota. Species are most well known from technical environments, Fusibacter fontis being the first described species of this genus isolated from a natural environment. The reported members of this genus are fermentative and halotolerant anaerobes. Moreover, these species share sulfur-reducing features capable of generating sulfide starting from elemental sulfur or thiosulfate sources.
The first draft genome of a strain of Fusibacter recovered from a saline environment in Northern Chile has been reported.[3]