{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Desulfobacter | authority = Widdel 1981<ref name=LPSN/> | type_species = ''Desulfobacter postgatei'' | type_species_authority = Widdel 1981 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''D. curvatus'' * ''D. halotolerans'' * ''D. hydrogenophilus'' * ''D. latus'' * ''D. postgatei'' * "''D. psychrotolerans''" * ''D. vibrioformis'' }}
'''''Desulfobacter''''' is a genus of bacteria from the family Desulfobacteraceae.<ref name=LPSN/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/2289 |website=UniProt.org | title=Taxonomy - Desulfobacter (genus)}}</ref> ''Desulfobacter'' has the ability to oxidize acetate to {{CO2|link=yes}}.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Sebald|editor-first1=Madaleine|title=Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria|date=1993|publisher=Springer New York|location=New York, NY|isbn=1-4615-7087-5}}</ref>
==Phylogeny== The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)<ref name=LPSN>{{lpsn3|genus/desulfobacter|Desulfobacter}}</ref> and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).<ref name=NCBI>{{cite web |author=Schoch CL |display-authors=et al. |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?command=show&mode=tree&id=2289&lvl=3 |title=Desulfobacter |accessdate=2025-06-05 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan=1 | 16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024<ref>{{cite web|title=The LTP |url=https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/#LTP| access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=LTP_all tree in newick format| url=https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/wp-content/uploads/ltp/LTP_all_10_2024.ntree |access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=LTP_10_2024 Release Notes| url=https://imedea.uib-csic.es/mmg/ltp/wp-content/uploads/ltp/LTP_10_2024_release_notes.pdf |access-date=10 December 2024}}</ref> ! colspan=1 | 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=GTDB release 10-RS226 |url=https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/about#4%7C |website=Genome Taxonomy Database|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="tree_bac">{{cite web |title=bac120_r226.sp_label |url=https://data.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/releases/release226/226.0/auxillary_files/bac120_r226.sp_labels.tree |website=Genome Taxonomy Database|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref><ref name="taxon_history">{{cite web |title=Taxon History |url=https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/taxon_history/ |website=Genome Taxonomy Database|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref> |- | style="vertical-align:top| {{Clade | style=font-size:90%;line-height:80% |label1=''Desulfobacter'' |1={{clade |1=''D. hydrogenophilus'' <small>Widdel 1988</small> |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''D. curvatus'' <small>Widdel 1988</small> |2=''D. postgatei'' <small>Widdel 1981</small> }} |2={{clade |1=''D. vibrioformis'' <small>Lien & Beeder 1997</small> |2={{clade |1=''D. halotolerans'' <small>Brandt & Ingvorsen 1998</small> |2=''D. latus'' <small>Widdel 1988</small> }} }} }} }} }} | {{Clade | style=font-size:90%;line-height:90% |label1=''Desulfobacter'' |1={{clade |1=''D. vibrioformis'' |2={{clade |1=''D. postgatei'' |2={{clade |1=''D. curvatus'' |2={{clade |1=''D. hydrogenophilus'' |2=''D. latus'' }} }} }} }} }} |}
==See also== * List of bacterial orders * List of bacteria genera
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book|editor-last1=Brenner|editor-first1=Don J.|editor-last2=Krieg|editor-first2=Noel R.|editor-last3=Staley|editor-first3=James T.|title=Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology|date=2005|publisher=Springer|location=New York|isbn=0-387-29298-5|edition=2nd}} * {{cite book|editor-last1=Garcia|editor-first1=Jean-Louis|editor-last2=Bruschi|editor-first2=Mireille|editor-last3=Bélaich|editor-first3=Jean-Pierre|title=Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict Anaerobes Involved in Interspecies Hydrogen Transfer|date=1990|publisher=Springer US|location=Boston, MA|isbn=1-4613-0613-2}} * {{cite book|last1=Atlas|first1=Ronald M.|title=Handbook of microbiological media|date=2010|publisher=Boca Raton, Fla.|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-1-4398-0408-7|edition=4th}} * {{cite book|last1=Riding|first1=Robert E.|last2=Awramik|first2=Stanley M.|title=Microbial sediments|date=2000|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|location=Berlin, Heidelberg|isbn=3-662-04036-0}} * {{cite book|last1=Thamdrup|first1=Donald E. Canfield ; Erik Kristensen ; Bo|title=Aquatic geomicrobiology|date=2005|publisher=Elsevier Acad. Press|location=London [u.a.]|isbn=0-12-158340-6|edition=Transferred to digital print.}} * {{cite book|editor-last1=Drake|editor-first1=Harold L.|title=Acetogenesis|date=1995|publisher=Springer US|location=Boston, MA|isbn=1-4615-1777-X}}
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Category:Desulfobacterales Category:Bacteria genera
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