''Blastochloris sulfoviridis'' is a bacterium from the genus of Blastochloris which uses

sulfur compounds Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...

as a source of energy. ''Blastochloris sulfoviridis'' was isolated from a sulfur spring in the

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Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen The Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH (German: ''Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH''), located in Braunschweig, is a research infrastructure in th ...

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Blastochloris sulfoviridis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales Bacteria described in 1997 {{Hyphomicrobiales-stub