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It has been 7 years since publication of the second edition of Postgate’s monograph on sulfate-reducing bacteria (Postgate, 1984a). That revision was prompted by the discovery of morphologically and nutritionally varied, sulfate-reducing genera within the bacterial domain (previously named the eubacterial kingdom; Woese et al., 1990; Widdel, 1988). [Note: The taxonomical concept of domain is rather new and refers to the highest ranking taxon of a group of organisms.] Until then, sulfate-reducing bacteria had been thought of as a relatively narrow and physiologically specialized collection united by their distinctive production of hydrogen sulfide from reduction of sulfate.
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Devereux, R., Stahl, D.A. (1993). Phylogeny of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and a Perspective for Analyzing Their Natural Communities. In: Odom, J.M., Singleton, R. (eds) The Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Contemporary Perspectives. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9263-7_6
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