Geobacillus jurassicus is a thermophilic bacterium first isolated from a high-temperature petroleum reservoir.[1][2] It is aerobic, gram-positive, rod-shaped, moderately thermophilic, chemoorganotrophic, and endospore-forming, with type species DS1T (=VKM B-2301T, =DSM 15726T).
| Geobacillus jurassicus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Bacillaceae |
| Genus: | Geobacillus |
| Species: | G. jurassicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Geobacillus jurassicus Nazina et al. 2005 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012
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References
edit- ^ Nazina, Tamara N.; Sokolova, Diana Sh.; Grigoryan, Alexander A.; Shestakova, Nataliya M.; Mikhailova, Ekaterina M.; Poltaraus, Andrei B.; Tourova, Tatiyana P.; Lysenko, Anatolii M.; Osipov, George A.; Belyaev, Sergey S. (2005). "Geobacillus jurassicus sp. nov., a new thermophilic bacterium isolated from a high-temperature petroleum reservoir, and the validation of the Geobacillus species". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 28 (1): 43–53. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2004.09.001. ISSN 0723-2020.
- ^ Coorevits, A.; Dinsdale, A. E.; Halket, G.; Lebbe, L.; De Vos, P.; Van Landschoot, A.; Logan, N. A. (2011). "Taxonomic revision of the genus Geobacillus: emendation of Geobacillus, G. stearothermophilus, G. jurassicus, G. toebii, G. thermodenitrificans and G. thermoglucosidans (nom. corrig., formerly 'thermoglucosidasius'); transfer of Bacillus thermantarcticus to the genus as G. thermantarcticus comb. nov.; proposal of Caldibacillus debilis gen. nov., comb. nov.; transfer of G. tepidamans to Anoxybacillus as A. tepidamans comb. nov.; and proposal of Anoxybacillus caldiproteolyticus sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62 (Pt 7): 1470–1485. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.030346-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 21856988.
Further reading
edit- Nazina, T. N., et al. "[The phylogenetic diversity of aerobic organotrophic bacteria from the Dagan high-temperature oil field]." Mikrobiologiia 74.3 (2004): 401–409.
- Rahman, Raja NZRA, et al. "Geobacillus zalihae sp. nov., a thermophilic lipolytic bacterium isolated from palm oil mill effluent in Malaysia." BMC Microbiology 7.1 (2007): 77.
- Muñoz, Patricio A., et al. "Thermophilic bacteria present in a sample from Fumarole Bay, Deception Island." Antarctic Science 23.06 (2011): 549–555.
- Kuisiene, Nomeda, et al. "Identification of the genus Geobacillus using genus-specific primers, based on the 16S–23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer." FEMS Microbiology Letters 277.2 (2007): 165–172.
External links
edit- "Geobacillus jurassicus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- LPSN
- Type strain of Geobacillus jurassicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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