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STANDARDS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 29-37Publisher
GENOMIC STAND CONSORT
DOI: 10.4056/sigs.13134
Keywords
Sulfate reducer; Gram-negative; free-living; non-pathogenic; freshwater; anaerobe; mesophile; Desulfomicrobiaceae
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- US Department of Energy Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research
- University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory [DE-AC02-06NA25396]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [INST 599/1-1]
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Desulfomicrobium baculatum is the type species of the genus Desulfomicrobium, which is the type genus of the family Desulfomicrobiaceae. It is of phylogenetic interest because of the isolated location of the family Desulfomicrobiaceae within the order Desulfovibrionales. D. baculatum strain X-T is a Gram-negative, motile, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from water-saturated manganese carbonate ore. It is strictly anaerobic and does not require NaCl for growth, although NaCl concentrations up to 6% (w/v) are tolerated. The metabolism is respiratory or fermentative. In the presence of sulfate, pyruvate and lactate are incompletely oxidized to acetate and CO2. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence and annotation. This is the first completed genome sequence of a member of the deltaproteobacterial family Desulfomicrobiaceae, and this 3,942,657 bp long single replicon genome with its 3494 protein-coding and 72 RNA genes is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.
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