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]
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References
edit- ^ 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. PMID 8588740. S2CID 31106349.
Further reading
edit- Horikoshi, K. (December 1999). "Alkaliphiles: some applications of their products for biotechnology". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 63 (4): 735–750. doi:10.1128/MMBR.63.4.735-750.1999. ISSN 1092-2172. PMC 98975. PMID 10585964.
- Dworkin, Martin; Falkow, Stanley, eds. (2006). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Archaea. Bacteria : firmicutes, actinomycetes (3rd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5. OCLC 262691458.
- Marti, Joan; Ernst, Gerald G. J., eds. (2005). Volcanoes and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511614767. ISBN 978-0-521-59725-8.
External links
edit- "Thermococcus alcaliphilus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- LPSN
- WORMS
- Type strain of Thermococcus alcaliphilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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