In taxonomy, Desulfurococcus is a genus of the Desulfurococcaceae.[1]
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Genus: | Desulfurococcus Zillig & Stetter 1983
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Desulfurococcus mucosus Zillig & Stetter 1983
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Desulfurococcus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
Further reading
edit- Perevalova AA, Svetlichny VA, Kublanov IV, et al. (May 2005). "Desulfurococcus fermentans sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon from a Kamchatka hot spring, and emended description of the genus Desulfurococcus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (3): 995–9. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63378-0. PMID 15879224.
- Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO (July 1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (3): 657–60. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
- Zillig W, Stetter KO, Prangishvilli D, Schafer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P (1982). "Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales". Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C3: 304–317.