Desulfosarcina alkanivorans

Desulfosarcina alkanivorans is a hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium from the genus of Desulfosarcina which has been isolated from oil contaminated marine sediments from Shuaiba in Kuwait.[1][2][3][4][5]

Desulfosarcina alkanivorans
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Deltaproteobacteria
Order:
Desulfobacterales
Family:
Desulfobacteraceae
Genus:
Desulfosarcina
Species:
D. alkanivorans
Binomial name
Desulfosarcina alkanivorans
Watanabe et al. 2017[1]
Type strain
DSM 103901, JCM 31728, strain PL12[2]

References
  1. "Desulfosarcina". LPSN.
  2. "Desulfosarcina alkanivorans". Ebi8.uniprot.org.
  3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M. (2017). "Taxonomy of the species Desulfosarcina alkanivorans Watanabe et al. 2017". doi:10.1601/tx.30605. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "Details: DSM-103901". www.dsmz.de.
  5. Watanabe, M; Higashioka, Y; Kojima, H; Fukui, M (August 2017). "Desulfosarcina widdelii sp. nov. and Desulfosarcina alkanivorans sp. nov., hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from marine sediment and emended description of the genus Desulfosarcina". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (8): 2994–2997. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002062. hdl:2115/71144. PMID 28820122.


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