Thermoplasmata

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Thermoplasmata

Domain:	Archaea
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Thermoplasmata

Order

Thermoplasmatales

Synonyms

Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002

In taxonomy, the Thermoplasmata are a class of the Euryarchaeota.^[1]

All are acidophiles, growing optimally at pH below 2. Picrophilus is currently the most acidophilic of all known organisms growing at a minimum pH of -0.06. Many of these organisms do not contain a cell wall, although this is not true in the case of Picrophilus. Most members of Thermotoplasmata are thermophilic.

1 References
2 Further reading
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[edit] References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Thermoplasmata. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Scientific journals

Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52: 7–76. PMID 11837318.

Woese, CR; Kandler O, Wheelis ML (1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87: 4576–4579. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMID 2112744.

[edit] Scientific books

Reysenbach, AL (2001). "Class IV. Thermoplasmata class. nov.", in DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria, 2nd ed., New York: Springer Verlag, p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.

Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov.", in DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria, 2nd ed., New York: Springer Verlag, p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.