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The Family Desulfomicrobiaceae

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Desulfomicrobiaceae, a family within the order Desulfovibrionales, embraces a single genus Desulfomicrobium. Besides their 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogeny, all members of the family are defined by a wide range of morphological and chemotaxonomic properties for the delineation of genera and species. Strictly anaerobic, having a respiratory type or fermentative type of metabolism. Members are either mesophilic or moderately thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria. Members of the family are found in various, predominantly marine habitats. All described species are chemoorganoheterotroph and chemolithoheterotroph with the exception of Desulfomicrobium macestii and Desulfomicrobium thermophilum which are described to be chemolithoautotroph. All members oxidize organic substrates incompletely to acetate with sulfate as electron acceptor, except some substrates which are exclusively fermented.

This contribution is a modified and updated version of a previous family description (Kuever et al. 2005a).

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Bremen Institute for Materials Testing, Paul-Feller-Str. 1, 28199, Bremen, Germany

    Jan Kuever

  2. Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

    Alexander Galushko

  3. Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna University, Althanstr. 14, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Alexander Galushko

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

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  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Kuever, J., Galushko, A. (2014). The Family Desulfomicrobiaceae. In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39044-9_310

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