Deinococcota

Deinococcota
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Thermotogati
Phylum: Deinococcota
Weisburg et al. 2021
Class: Deinococci
Garrity and Holt 2002
Orders & families
Synonyms
  • "Deinobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006
  • "Deinococcobacteria" Margulis & Schwartz 1998
  • "Deinococcaeota" Oren et al. 2015
  • "Deinococcota" Whitman et al. 2018
  • "Deinococcus–Thermus" Weisburg et al. 1989
  • "Hadobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006
  • "Xenobacteria"

Deinococcota (synonym, Deinococcus-Thermus) is a phylum of bacteria with a single class, Deinococci, that are highly resistant to environmental hazards, also known as extremophiles.

These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them gram-positive stains, but they include a second membrane and so are closer in structure to those of gram-negative bacteria.

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