Cross Index	Desulfomicrobium
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria Dissimilatory Sulfate or Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria
Compare	Desulferella acetivorans ,Desulfobacter Desulfobacterium, Desulfobulbus, Desulfococcus Desulfomicrobium Desulfomonas pigra reclassified as DesulfovibrioDesulfomonile tiedjei , Desulfonema ,Desulfosarcina variabilis Desulfotomaculum, Desulfovibrio Desulfuromonas acetoxidans Thermodesulfobacterium
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Desulfomicrobium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative
Morphology	ovoid to rod shaped 0.6 x 1.3 um.
Motility	motile by a single flagellum or non motile
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Desulfomicrobium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophic,
Oxygen	Strictly anaerobic, having both a respiratory and a fermentative type of metabolism. Hydrogen gas, lactate or malate is oxidized as the electron donor
pH	optimum pH 6.6 7.5
Temperature	Optimum temperature, 25-40 oC
Requirements	all species can grow on simple defined media but growth is stimulated by the addition of yeast extract.
Products	organic substrates are incompletely oxidized to acetate, ethanol is not used
Enzymes
Unique features	desulfoviridin is absent, sulfate, sulfite and thiosulfate are reduced to hydrogen sulfide. Sulfur may be reduced.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	anoxic freshwater and marine sediments and oil field waters
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Desulfomicrobium

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Desulfomicrobium

First citation	Rozanova et al 1988 Mikrobiologiya 57: 634-641
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 336

References