Desulfurococcus

{{Short description|Genus of archaea}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| taxon = Desulfurococcus

| authority = Zillig & Stetter 1983

| type_species = Desulfurococcus mucosus

| type_species_authority = Zillig & Stetter 1983

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • D. amylolyticus
  • D. fermentans
  • D. kamchatkensis
  • D. mobilis
  • D. mucosus
  • "D. saccharovorans"

}}

In taxonomy, Desulfurococcus is a genus of the Desulfurococcaceae.See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=2273 webpage on Desulfurococcus]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |access-date=2007-03-19}}

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal |vauthors=Perevalova AA, Svetlichny VA, Kublanov IV |display-authors=etal |title=Desulfurococcus fermentans sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon from a Kamchatka hot spring, and emended description of the genus Desulfurococcus |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=995–9 |date=May 2005 |pmid=15879224 |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.63378-0|doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal |vauthors=Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO |title=Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data |journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=657–60 |date=July 1997 |pmid=9226896 |doi=10.1099/00207713-47-3-657 |doi-access=free }}
  • {{ cite journal | vauthors = Zillig W, Stetter KO, Prangishvilli D, Schafer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P | year = 1982 | title = Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales | journal = Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. | volume = C3 | pages = 304–317 }}