Thermococcus alcaliphilus
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Thermococcus alcaliphilus is a hyperthermophilic archaeon. It is coccoid-shaped and heterotrophic, first isolated from a shallow marine hydrothermal system at Vulcano Island, Italy. Its type strain is AEDII12 (DSM 10322).[1]
References
- ↑ Keller, Martin; Braun, Franz-Josef; Dirmeier, Reinhard; Hafenbradl, Doris; Burggraf, Siegfried; Rachel, Reinhard; Stetter, Karl O. (1995). "Thermococcus alcaliphilus sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeum growing on polysulfide at alkaline pH". Archives of Microbiology. 164 (6): 390–395. doi:10.1007/BF02529736. ISSN 0302-8933.
Further reading
- Horikoshi, Koki. "Alkaliphiles: some applications of their products for biotechnology." Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 63.4 (1999): 735–750.
- Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 3: Archaea. Bacteria: Firmicutes, Actinomycetes. Vol. 3. Springer, 2006. *Martí, Joan, and Gerald Ernst, eds. Volcanoes and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
External links
- "Thermococcus alcaliphilus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- WORMS
- Type strain of Thermococcus alcaliphilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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