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:Thermococcus alcaliphilus

{{Short description|Species of archaeon}}

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| taxon = Thermococcus alcaliphilus

| authority = Keller et al. 1997

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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).{{cite journal|last1=Keller|first1=Martin|last2=Braun|first2=Franz-Josef|last3=Dirmeier|first3=Reinhard|last4=Hafenbradl|first4=Doris|last5=Burggraf|first5=Siegfried|last6=Rachel|first6=Reinhard|last7=Stetter|first7=Karl O.|title=Thermococcus alcaliphilus sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeum growing on polysulfide at alkaline pH|journal=Archives of Microbiology|volume=164|issue=6|date=1995|pages=390–395|issn=0302-8933|doi=10.1007/BF02529736|pmid=8588740 |s2cid=31106349 }}

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Further reading

  • {{Cite journal |last=Horikoshi |first=K. |date=December 1999 |title=Alkaliphiles: some applications of their products for biotechnology |journal=Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=735–750 |doi=10.1128/MMBR.63.4.735-750.1999 |issn=1092-2172 |pmid=10585964|pmc=98975 }}
  • {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262691458 |title=The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Archaea. Bacteria : firmicutes, actinomycetes |date=2006 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-387-30743-5 |editor-last=Dworkin |editor-first=Martin |edition=3rd |location=New York |oclc=262691458 |editor-last2=Falkow |editor-first2=Stanley}}
  • {{Cite book |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/volcanoes-and-the-environment/4C0612EA57998453B54433EA659063A7 |title=Volcanoes and the Environment |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-59725-8 |editor-last=Marti |editor-first=Joan |location=Cambridge |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511614767 |editor-last2=Ernst |editor-first2=Gerald G. J.}}

External links

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  • [https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/thermococcus LPSN]
  • [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573774 WORMS]
  • [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=16867&submit=Search Type strain of Thermococcus alcaliphilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]

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Category:Euryarchaeota

Category:Archaea described in 1997

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