Thioalkalivibrio nitratis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Gammaproteobacteria
Order:
Chromatiales
Family:
Ectothiorhodospiraceae
Genus:
Thioalkalivibrio
Species:
T. nitratis
Binomial name
Thioalkalivibrio nitratis
Sorokin et al. 2001

Thioalkalivibrio nitratis is an obligately alkaliphilic and obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. It was first isolated from soda lakes in northern Russia.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Sorokin DY, Lysenko AM, Mityushina LL, Tourova TP, Jones BE, Rainey FA, et al. (2001). "Thioalkalimicrobium aerophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thioalkalimicrobium sibericum sp. nov., and Thioalkalivibrio versutus gen. nov., sp. nov., Thioalkalivibrio nitratis sp.nov., novel and Thioalkalivibrio denitrificancs sp. nov., novel obligately alkaliphilic and obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 51 (Pt 2): 565–80. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-2-565. PMID 11321103.

Further reading

  • Ballows, A., et al. "The prokaryotes, a handbook on the biology of bacteria: Ecophysiology, isolation, identification, applications." Springer-verlag 1 (1992): 811–815.
  • Neilson, Alasdair H., and Ann-Sofie Allard. Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Mechanisms of Degradation and Transformation. CRC Press, 2012.
  • Klotz, Martin G., Donald A. Bryant, and Thomas E. Hanson. "The microbial sulfur cycle." Frontiers in microbiology 2 (2011).


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