Thermolithobacteria is a class of rod-shaped Gram-positive bacteria within phylum Bacillota.
Species within this class are thermophilic lithotrophs isolated from sediment in Calcite Springs in Yellowstone National Park.
[1][2] Thermolithobacter ferrireducens strain JW/KA-2(T) metabolism consists of the oxidation of hydrogen gas and reduction of ferric oxide to magnetite.
Thermolithobacter carboxydivorans strain R1(T) is hydrogenic and oxidizes carbon monoxide.
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