Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis (DSM 5308, ATCC 49858, VKM B-1765)

Name: Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis (DSM 5308, ATCC 49858, VKM B-1765)
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BacDive ID 4115

Type strain

Strain Designation HI1

Culture col. no. DSM 5308 ATCC 49858 VKM B-1765 HI1

NCBI tax ID(s) 42252

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M. Trinkerl, Universität Ulm, Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Ulm, Germany; HI1 <- M. Trinkerl {1988}

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Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis HI1 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from hindgut of the termite Heterotermes indicola.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 45249

ATCC 49858,DSM 5308,VKM B-1765

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:51

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Nitratidesulfovibrio

Species Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis

Full scientific name Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis (Trinkerl et al. 1991) Waite et al. 2020

Synonyms (2)

Cupidesulfovibrio termitidis
Desulfovibrio termitidis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	98.07

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1985	DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63) Composition: MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l Na-DL-lactate 2.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2SO4 1.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.1 g/l Ascorbic acid 0.1 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1985	positive	growth	35

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1985

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		97.708

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1985	hindgut of the termite Heterotermes indicola	Heterotermes indicola	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1985	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM50430v1 assembly for Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis HI1	scaffold	GCA_000504305	644897.3	2508501043	644897	77.54

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
1985	D.termitidis DNA for 16S ribosomal RNA	X87409	1506		644897

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
1985	68.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
1985	67.0	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM50430v1 assembly for Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis HI1
NCBI: GCA_000504305

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	66.66	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	86.36	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	74.38	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.71	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Cupidesulfovibrio termitidis HI1 HI1
NCBI: GCA_000504305.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.07	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	79.81	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	84.73	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.03	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	91.15	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	80.38	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Cupidesulfovibrio liaohensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulphate-reducing bacterium isolated from an oil reservoir and reclassification of Desulfovibrio oxamicus and Desulfovibrio termitidis as Cupidesulfovibrio oxamicus comb. nov. and Cupidesulfovibrio termitidis comb. nov.	Wan YY, Luo N, Liu XL, Lai QL, Goodfellow M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004618	2021

References

#1985	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 5308
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Nitratidesulfovibrio termitidis (DSM 5308, ATCC 49858, VKM B-1765)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000504305

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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