| Cross Index | Desulfotomaculum |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Endospore-Forming Gram-Positive Rods and Cocci and Sulfur Bacteria |
| Compare | Spore formers: Amphibacillus xylans,
Bacillus,
Clostridium,
Desulfotomaculum,
Oscillospira
guilliermondii, Sporohalobacter,
Sporolactobacillus
insulinus, Sporosarcina,
Sulfidobacillus
thermosulfooxidans, Syntrophospora bryantii, Other Spore Formers Pasteuria Thermoactinomyces, Sporomusa, Sarcina Sporichthya polymorpha "Sporospirillum" Sporocytophaga myxococcoides Sulfur Bacteria:Desulferella acetivorans ,Desulfobacter Desulfobacterium, Desulfobulbus, Desulfococcus Desulfomicrobium Desulfomonas pigra reclassified as DesulfovibrioDesulfomonile tiedjei , Desulfonema ,Desulfosarcina variabilis Desulfotomaculum, Desulfovibrio Desulfuromonas acetoxidans Thermodesulfobacterium See also Desulfovibrio of the sulfur bacteria |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Desulfotomaculum |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Although cells have a multilayered cell wall structure, they consistently stain GRAM NEGATIVE |
| Morphology | of these straight or curved rods |
| Motility | Desulfotomaculum generally have peritrichous flagella unlike the single polar flagellum of Desulfovibrio |
| Specialized structures | The endospores are oval to round, terminal to subterminal and cause a slight swelling of the cells, may have gas vacuoles |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Black colonies are produced on agar contining a carbon source and ferrous salts |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Desulfotomaculum |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotropic or autotrophs Species that use hydrogen may be heterotrophs that require acetate |
| Oxygen | strict anaerobes but with a respiratory metabolism |
| pH | optimum pH 6.6-7.4 |
| Temperature | mesophiles 25-40 oC thermophiles 40-65 oC |
| Requirements | may require vitamins, Species that use hydrogen may be heterotrophs that require acetate |
| Products | Sulfates, sulfites and reducible sulfur compounds act as electron acceptors and are reduced to hydrogen sulfide. |
| Enzymes | catalase negative. |
| Unique features | contain the cytochrome b of the protoheme class, lack cytochrome c3 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | common inhabitants of soil, fresh water, geothermal regions, certain spoiled foods, intestines of insects, rumen and stratal water from oil fields., rich paddies |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Desulfotomaculum |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Desulfotomaculum |
| First citation | Campbell,L.L. and J.R.Postgate (1965) Clasification of the spore-forming suflate-reducing bacteria. Bacteriol Rev. 29:359-363 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1200 L.L. Campbell and R. Singleton |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 560, page 335 |
| References |