The Desulfuromonadales are an order within the
Thermodesulfobacteriota
The Thermodesulfobacteriota are a phylum of thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria.
A pathogenic intracellular thermodesulfobacteriote has recently been identified.
Phylogeny
The phylogeny is based on phylogenomic
Phylogenomics is the interse ...
. Various members of the Desulfomonadales are capable of
anaerobic respiration
Anaerobic respiration is respiration using electron acceptors other than molecular oxygen (O2). Although oxygen is not the final electron acceptor, the process still uses a respiratory electron transport chain.
In aerobic organisms undergoing r ...
utilizing a variety of compounds as electron acceptors, including
sulfur,
Mn(IV),
Fe(III),
nitrate,
Co(III),
Tc(VII),
U(VI) and
trichloroacetic acid
Trichloroacetic acid (TCA; TCAA; also known as trichloroethanoic acid) is an analogue of acetic acid in which the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have all been replaced by chlorine atoms. Salts and esters of trichloroacetic acid are calle ...
[Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. .][Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt (Hrsg.) ''The Prokaryotes, A Handbook of the Biology of Bacteria''. 7 Bände, 3. Auflage, Springer-Verlag, New York u. a. O., 2006, . Vol. 2: ''Ecophysiology and Biochemistry'' .]
References
External links
Geobacter Project
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