Fusibacter is a genus of bacteria within the phylum Bacillota. Species are most well known from technical environments, Fusibacter fontis being the first described species of this genus isolated from a natural environment. The reported members of this genus are fermentative and halotolerant anaerobes. Moreover, these species share sulfur-reducing features capable of generating sulfide starting from elemental sulfur or thiosulfate sources.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Fusibacter Ravot et al. 1999[1] |
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| Fusibacter paucivorans Ravot et al. 1999
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The first draft genome of a strain of Fusibacter recovered from a saline environment in Northern Chile has been reported.[3]
References
edit- ^ Ravot G, Magot M, Fardeau ML, Patel BK, Thomas P, Garcia JL, Ollivier B. (1999). "Fusibacter paucivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thiosulfate-reducing bacterium from an oil-producing well". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 49 (3): 1141–1147. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-3-1141. PMID 10425772.
- ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Fusibacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved April 2, 2022.
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This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license. Serrano, Antonio E.; Escudero, Lorena V.; Tebes-Cayo, Cinthya; Acosta, Mauricio; Encalada, Olga; Fernández-Moroso Sebastián, Demergasso & Cecilia (24 July 2017). "First draft genome sequence of a strain from the genus Fusibacter isolated from Salar de Ascotán in Northern Chile". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12 (43): 43. doi:10.1186/s40793-017-0252-4. PMC 5525254. PMID 28770028.
