Hydrogen Sulfide: A Toxic Gas Produced by Dissimilatory Sulfate and Sulfur Reduction and Consumed by Microbial Oxidation - The Metal-Driven Biogeochemistry of Gaseous Compounds in the Environment - page 237

Table 1 Genera of prokaryotes displaying dissimilatory sulfate and sulfur reduction (list
incomplete).

Sulfate Reducers Sulfur Reducers

Archaea Archaea

Archaeoglobus fulgidus Acidianus ambivalens

Caldivirga Acidilobus

Vulcanisaeta Caldisphaera

Caldivirga

Bacteria Ammonifex Caldococcus

Candidatus desulforudis Desulfolobus

Desulfacinum Desulfurococcus

Desulfobacter Hyperthermus

Desulfobacterium autotrophicum Methanobacterium

Desulfobulbus Methanococcus

Desulfocapsa Methanosarcina barkeri

Desulfococcus Pyrobaculum

Desulfocurvus Pyrococcus furiosus

Desulfofustis Pyrodictium abyssi

Desulfohalobium Staphylothermus

Desulfoluna Stetteria

Desulfomicrobium norvegicum Stygiolobus

Desulfonatronovibrio Thermococcus

Desulfosarcina
Desulfosporosinus Bacteria

Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans Campylobacter

Desulfomicrobium a

Desulfovibrio gigas

Desulfotomaculum a

Desulfovibrio vulgaris H

Desulfovibrio a

Desulfovirga

Syntrophobacter Desulfurella

Thermodesulfatator Desulfurobacterium

Thermodesulfobacterium commune Desulfuromonas acetoxidans

Thermodesulfobium Salmonella

Thermodesulfovibrio

Sulfurospirillum deleyianum
Shewanella
Wolinella succinogenes

Model organisms and/or major species studied are written in bold.
a

Only some thiophilic species are able to reduce elemental sulfur.

potential electron donors for SRP [ 2 , 3 , 15 ]. SRP are the anaerobic microorganisms
that reduce the greatest number of different terminal electron acceptors including
inorganic sulfur compounds and various other organic and inorganic substrates [ 3 , 4 ,
6 , 10 , 15 - 17 ]. The contribution of SRP to the total carbon mineralization process in
marine sediments, where sulfate is not limiting, was estimated to be up to 50 % [ 3 , 4 ].
The most extensive biochemical and physiological studies have been done with
SRB of the genus Desulfovibrio which are the most rapidly and easily cultivated