Desmospora

Desmospora is a bacterial genus from the family of Thermoactinomycetaceae.

Desmospora
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Thermoactinomycetaceae
Genus:	Desmospora Yassin et al. 2009
Type species
Desmospora activa Yassin et al. 2009
Species
D. activa D. profundinema
Synonyms
Catenispora

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

Further reading

• Yassin, A. F.; Hupfer, H.; Klenk, H.-P.; Siering, C. (1 March 2009). "Desmospora activa gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoactinomycete isolated from sputum of a patient with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis, and emended description of the family Thermoactinomycetaceae Matsuo et al. 2006". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (3): 454–459. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.001362-0. PMID 19244421.
• Tian, Xinpeng; Zhang, Si; Zhang, Yi; Li, Jie (1 August 2015). "Marinithermofilum abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov. and Desmospora profundinema sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea sediment, and emended description of the genus Desmospora Yassin et al. 2009". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (8): 2622–2629. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.000314. PMID 25957053.