''Desulfomonile tiedjei'' is a bacterium.
It is anaerobic,
dehalogenating,
sulfate
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reducing,
Gram-negative
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, non-
motile
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Definitions
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, non-
spore
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-forming and rod-shaped. Its type strain is DCB-1.
References
Further reading
*Louie, Tai Man, and William W. Mohn. "Evidence for a Chemiosmotic Model of Dehalorespiration in Desulfomonile tiedjeiDCB-1." Journal of Bacteriology 181.1 (1999): 40–46.
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Desulfomonile tiedjei'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 1990
Thermodesulfobacteriota
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