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Chlorobium tepidum

Chlorobium tepidum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Chlorobi
Class: Chlorobia
Order: Chlorobiales
Family: Chlorobiaceae
Genus: Chlorobium
Species: C. tepidum
Binomial name
Chlorobium tepidum
Wahlund et al. 1991

Chlorobium tepidum is an anaerobic, thermophilic green sulfur bacteria first isolated from New Zealand. Cells are gram-negative and non-motile rods of variable length. They contain bacteriochlorophyll c and chlorosomes.

Chlorobium tepidum contains a genome that contains 2.15 Mbp. There are a total of 2,337 genes (of these genes, there are 2,245 protein coding genes and 56 tRNA and rRNA coding genes).



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