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==Description and Significance== | ==Description and Significance== | ||
''Desulfococcus'' group is cultivated bacteria as well as ''[[Desulfosarcina]]''. They can completely oxidize acetate by using sulfate as electron acceptor under anoxic condition. They are involved in Chemoautotrophs, anaerobic, thermophilic and mesophilic bacteria. | |||
In coastal marine sediments, over 50% of carbon is decomposed by sulfate-reducing bacteria including ''Desulfococcus''. Also, they play an important role in the cycling of sulfur compounds of in sea water. | |||
==Genome Structure== | ==Genome Structure== | ||
Revision as of 04:25, 16 March 2008
A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Desulfococcus
Classification
Higher order taxa:
Bacteria; Proteobacteria; delta/epsilon subdivisions; Deltaproteobacteria; Desulfobacterales; Desulfobacteraceae
Species:
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NCBI: Taxonomy Genome: Desulfococcus oleovorans Hxd3 ' |
Desulfococcus biacutus, Desulfococcus multivorans, Desulfococcus oleovorans, Desulfococcus sp. DSM 8541
Description and Significance
Desulfococcus group is cultivated bacteria as well as Desulfosarcina. They can completely oxidize acetate by using sulfate as electron acceptor under anoxic condition. They are involved in Chemoautotrophs, anaerobic, thermophilic and mesophilic bacteria. In coastal marine sediments, over 50% of carbon is decomposed by sulfate-reducing bacteria including Desulfococcus. Also, they play an important role in the cycling of sulfur compounds of in sea water.
Genome Structure
Cell Structure and Metabolism
Ecology
References
Edited by student of Kate Scow
