Desulfovibrio vulgaris
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Thermodesulfobacteriota
- class
- Desulfovibrionia
- order
- Desulfovibrionales
- family
- Desulfovibrionaceae
- genus
- Desulfovibrio
- species
- Desulfovibrio vulgaris
Abstract
Desulfovibrio vulgaris is a species of Gram-negative sulfate-reducing bacteria in the Desulfovibrionaceae family. Desulfovibrio vulgaris is often used as a model organism for sulfur-reducing bacteria and was the first of such bacteria to have its genome sequenced. Desulfovibrio vulgaris is ubiquitous in nature and has also been implicated in a variety of human bacterial infections, although it may only be an opportunistic pathogen.
Name
- Homonyms
- Desulfovibrio vulgaris