| Cross Index | Thermodesulfobacterium |
| 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 | Thermodesulfobacterium commune and Thermodesulfobacterium mobile (formerly Desulfovibrio thermophilus) |
| Morphology | Thermodesulfobacterium |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | ovoid to rod shaped 0.3 x 0.9-2.5 um |
| Motility | motile by a single polar flagellum or non motile |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Thermodesulfobacterium |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic, |
| Oxygen | Strictly anaerobic, |
| pH | optimum pH 6.6-7.5 |
| Temperature | Optimum temperature, 65-70 oC |
| Requirements | can grow on simple, defined media but growth is stimulated by yeast extract. |
| Products | organic substrates are incompletely oxidixed to acetate, ethanol is not used. Hydrogen gas or lactate is oxidized as the electron donor, |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | sulfate is reduced to hydrogen sulfide |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | hot springs and oil filed water systems |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Thermodesulfobacterium |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Thermodesulfobacterium |
| First citation | Zeikus et an 1983 J. Gen Microbiol 129:1159-1169 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 337 |
| References |