Denitrovibrio acetiphilus

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Classification

Domain: Bacteria; Phylum: Deferribacteres; Class: Deferribacteres; Order: Deferribacterales; family: Deferribacteraceae genus: Denitrovibrio. (1)

Species

Species: acetiphilus (2)

NCBI: Taxonomy

Denitrovibrio acetiphilus

Description and Significance

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Genome Structure

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Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

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Ecology and Pathogenesis

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References

(1) Denitrovibrio acetiphilus taxonomy - (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/details/species/id/4257206) (2) Myhr, S., and Torsvik, T. "Denitrovibrio acetiphilus, a novel genus and species of dissimilatory nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from an oil reservoir model column". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology". 2000. Volume 50. pgs. 1611–1619 (http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/50/4/1611.full.pdf).

Authors

Page authored by Rodney Tocco, Minh Tran, Samantha Wengert, and Eric Werner, students of Prof. Jay Lennon at Michigan State University.

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