dyella thiooxydans dyella thiooxydans dyella thiooxydans is a gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, thiosulfate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic and motile bacterium from the genus of dyella which has been isolated from rhizospheric soil of field with sunflowers (helianthus annuus) from junghwa-dong in korea. dyella thiooxydans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: xanthomonadales family: rhodanobacteraceae genus: dyella species: d. thiooxydans binomial name dyella thiooxydansanandham et al. 2011 type strain kacc 12756, lmg 24673, strain atsb10