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The Genus Thiobacillus

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Introduction

Ever since the genus Thiobacillus was first described in 1904, the ability to grow while using a reduced sulfur compound as a source of energy has been considered sufficiently important taxonomically to merit classifying all Gram-negative, sulfur-oxidizing, nonphototrophic rods in this genus. However, as studies using modern taxonomic methods began to reveal that some of the species are only superficially related, virtually every paper describing a new Thiobacillus species in the last decade has mentioned the need to reorganize the genus. Most of this reorganization has now been done (Kelly and Wood, 2000a), and the authors are grateful to D.P. Kelly and A. Wood for permission to see and use their resulting manuscripts prior to publication.

The effect of the reorganization is dramatic (Table 1). In the last edition of The Prokaryotes, the genus Thiobacillusincluded 17 species. There are now only three species left—all autotrophs, and all members of the β-subclass of the...

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Robertson, L.A., Kuenen, J.G. (2006). The Genus Thiobacillus . In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30745-1_37

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