Desulfovibrio
Genus of bacteria
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Desulfovibrio is a genus of Gram-negative sulfate-reducing bacteria. Desulfovibrio species are commonly found in aquatic environments with high levels of organic material, as well as in water-logged soils, and form major community members of extreme oligotrophic habitats such as deep granitic fractured rock aquifers. They're also found in the guts of beetles, such as Melolontha melolontha, where they perform sulfate reduction.[1]
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Desulfovibrionia |
| Order: | Desulfovibrionales |
| Family: | Desulfovibrionaceae |
| Genus: | Desulfovibrio Kluyver & van Niel 1936 |
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| Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (Beijerinck 1895) Kluyver & van Niel 1936 | |
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High amounts of Desulfovibrio bacteria have been associated with inflammatory bowel disease, bacteremia infections, and Parkinson's disease.[2][3]
Some Desulfovibrio species have in recent years been shown to have bioremediation potential for toxic radionuclides such as uranium by a reductive bioaccumulation process, such as converting highly water-soluble U(VI) to relatively insoluble U(IV) precipitate, thus removing the toxic uranium from contaminated water.[4]
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[5] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[6]
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Unassigned species:
- D. aminophilus Baena et al. 1999
- D. biadhensis Fadhlaoui et al. 2015
- D. bizertensis Haouari et al. 2006 [Paradesulfovibrio bizertensis (Haouari et al. 2006) Waite et al. 2020]
- "D. caledoniensis" Tardy-Jacquenod et al. 1996
- D. capillatus Miranda-Tello et al. 2013[13]
- "D. cavernae" Sass & Cypionka 2004
- "D. diazotrophicus" corrig. Sayavedra et al. 2021
- D. gracilis Magot et al. 2004[14] [Paucidesulfovibrio gracilis (Magot et al. 2004) Waite et al. 2020]
- D. giganteus corrig. Esnault, Caumette & Garcia 1988
- D. falkowii Hamaguchi et al. 2025
- "D. ferrophilus" Dinh et al. 2004
- "D. halohydrocarbonoclasticus" Zobell 1947
- "D. hontreensis" Tarasov et al. 2015
- D. litoralis Sass et al. 1998
- "D. multispirans" Czechowski et al. 1984
- "D. oliviopondense" Qatabi Sr. 2007
- "D. oryzae" Ouattara et al. 2000b
- D. profundus Bale et al. 1997
- "D. rubentschikii" (Baars 1930) ZoBell 1948
- "D. singaporenus" Sheng et al. 2007
