Thermosinus carboxydivorans
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| Thermosinus carboxydivorans | |
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| Species: | T. carboxydivorans |
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| Thermosinus carboxydivorans Sokolova et al. 2004 | |
Thermosinus carboxydivorans is an anaerobic, thermophilic, Gram-negative, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium, the type species of its genus. It is facultatively carboxydotrophic, curved, motile, rod-shaped, with a length of 2.6–3 μm, a width of about 0.5 μm and lateral flagellation. Its type strain is Nor1T (=DSM 14886T =VKM B-2281T).[1]