Dehalobacter

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Dehalobacter
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Dehalobacter

Holliger et al. 1998
Type species
Dehalobacter restrictus
Holliger et al. 1998
Species
  • "Ca. D. alkaniphilus"
  • D. restrictus

Dehalobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).[1]

The generic name Dehalobacter derives from Latin de, from; halogenum from Swedish, coined by Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848) from Greek hals, halos "salt" + gen "to produce", so called because a salt is formed in reactions involving these elements; a rod bacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, a rod; giving Dehalobacter, a halogen-removing, rod-shaped bacterium.[1][2]

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