Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al., 2002
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Clostridiales
- family
- Peptococcaceae
- genus
- Desulfitobacterium
- species
- Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
Abstract
Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated aquifer sediment.