Desulfobacteria
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| Desulfobacteria | |
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| Stromatolites next to a volcanic lake, found to harbor abundant Desulfobacterales | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Thermodesulfobacteriota |
| Class: | Desulfobacteria Waite et al. 2020[1] |
| Orders[1][2] | |
The Desulfobacteria are a class of bacteria in the phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota. They are strictly anaerobic respirators, using sulfate or nitrate as the terminal electron acceptors.[3]
