| Cross Index | Desulfuromonas acetoxidans |
| 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 | Desulfuromonas acetoxidans |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Straight or slightly curved rods and elongated ovoid rods, 0.4- 0.9 um in diameter and 1.0-4.0 um in length. |
| Motility | Motile, generally by means of a single flagellum located at a lateral or subpolar position; the cells exhibit a characteristic propeller-like movement. Some of the strains have polar flagella |
| Specialized structures | Resting stages are not known to occur |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Colonies on anaerobic agar media are translucent to opaque and either peach-coloured or pink. |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Desulfuromonas acetoxidans |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic, using acetate and other simple organic compounds as carbon sources and electron donors in the presence of bicarbonate; the acetate and other substrates are completely oxidized to CO2. |
| Oxygen | Strictly anerobic. Possess mainly a respiratory type of metabolism with elemental sulfur as the terminal electron acceptor, being reduced to H2S (dissimilatory sulfur reduction). |
| pH | |
| Temperature | . Optimum growth temperature, 30`C. |
| Requirements | |
| Products | L-Malate or fumarate may be fermented to acetate and succinate |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Occur regularly in anaerobic sediments of salt lakes and in marine or brackish habitats; have also been enriched from freshwater sediments. |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Desulfuromonas acetoxidans |
| G+C Mol % | 50-63 (Tm) |
| Reference | Desulfuromonas acetoxidans |
| First citation | Pfennig, N.and H. Biebl. 1976 Desulfuromonas acetoxidans gen nov. and sp. nov., a new anaerobic, sulfur reducing, acetate-oxidizing bacterium. Arch Microbiol 110: 3-12 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 664 N. Pfennig |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 340 |
| References |