''Desulfomonile limimaris'' is a bacterium.
It is an anaerobic
dehalogenating bacterium first isolated from marine
sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand an ...
s. Its cells are large,
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...
rods with a collar girdling each cell, like ''
Desulfomonile tiedjei
''Desulfomonile tiedjei'' is a bacterium. It is anaerobic, dehalogenating, sulfate- reducing, Gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for ...
''. The type strain is DCB-MT (= ATCC 700979T).
References
Further reading
*Neilson, Alasdair H., and Ann-Sofie Allard. Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Mechanisms of Degradation and Transformation. CRC Press, 2012.
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*Twardowska, Irena, et al., eds. Viable methods of soil and water pollution monitoring, protection and remediation. Vol. 69. Springer, 2006.
External links
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LPSNWORMS entry
Bacteria described in 2001
Thermodesulfobacteriota
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