''Desulfovibrio vulgaris'' is a species of

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 wa ...

sulfate-reducing bacteria Sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) or sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are a group composed of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfate-reducing archaea (SRA), both of which can perform anaerobic respiration utilizing sulfate () as termina ...

in the

Desulfovibrionaceae Desulfovibrionaceae is a family of bacteria belonging to the phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota. Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotec ...

family. ''Desulfovibrio vulgaris'' is often used as a model organism for sulfur-reducing bacteria and was the first of such bacteria to have its

genome In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding g ...

sequenced. ''Desulfovibrio vulgaris'' is ubiquitous in nature and has also been implicated in a variety of human bacterial infections, although it may only be an opportunistic pathogen.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Desulfovibrio vulgaris'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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