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The Family Desulfohalobiaceae

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Desulfohalobiaceae, a family within the order Desulfovibrionales, embraces the genera Desulfohalobium, Desulfonatronospira, Desulfonatronovibrio, Desulfothermus, Desulfonauticus, Desulfovermiculus, and Desulfohalophilus. 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 of metabolism. Fermentative metabolism might occur. Members are either mesophilic or moderately thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria. Members of the family are mainly found in marine, highly saline, and haloalkaline habitats. Most described species are chemoorganoheterotroph; some are chemolithoheterotroph or chemolithoautotroph. Most members oxidize organic substrates incompletely to acetate, whereas some perform a complete oxidation of organic substrates.

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

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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

    Edward F. DeLong

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

    Stephen Lory

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

    Erko Stackebrandt

  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

    Fabiano Thompson

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Kuever, J. (2014). The Family Desulfohalobiaceae. 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_311

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