Project name: Deinococcus gobiensis

Description: Deinococcus gobiensis. This is a Gram-positive, non-motile, spherical, red-pigmented and facultatively anaerobic bacterium, that was isolated from a sand sample of the Gobi desert in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. This is the only facultative anaerobic species in the genus (Other strains are all aerobic). It shows higher resistance to gamma radiation and UV light than D. radiodurans.

Last updated: 2010-03-16