Thioreductor

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Thioreductor

Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (--->) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).

Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Thioreductor Nakagawa et al. 2005, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Thioreductor micantisoli Nakagawa et al. 2005.
Etymology: Gr. neut. n. thium, sulfur; L. masc. n. reductor, one who leads or brings back; N.L. masc. n. Thioreductor, sulfur-reducer.
Reference: NAKAGAWA (S.), INAGAKI (F.), TAKAI (K.), HORIKOSHI (K.) and SAKO (Y.): Thioreductor micantisoli gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, sulfur-reducing chemolithoautotroph within the ε-Proteobacteria isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 599-605.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: In the etymology cited in the paper by Nakagawa et al. 2005, the Greek noun thium is erroneously cited as thios.

Further concise information (in French)

Thioreductor micantisoli Nakagawa et al. 2005, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain BKB25Ts-Y = DSM 16661 = JCM 12457.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB175498.
Etymology: L. part. adj. micans -antis, sparkling; L. gen. n. soli, of the lowest part of a thing, of the bottom, of the ground; N.L. gen. n. micantisoli, from the sparkling seafloor.
Reference: NAKAGAWA (S.), INAGAKI (F.), TAKAI (K.), HORIKOSHI (K.) and SAKO (Y.): Thioreductor micantisoli gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, sulfur-reducing chemolithoautotroph within the ε-Proteobacteria isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 599-605.
Original article in IJSEM Online