Acidianus

Acidianus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Crenarchaeota
Phylum:	Crenarchaeota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Sulfolobales
Family:	Sulfolobaceae
Genus:	Acidianus Segerer, Neuner, Kristjansson & Stetter, 1986
Species
A. ambivalens A. brierleyi A. convivator A. infernus A. manzaensis A. pozzuoliensis A. tengchongenses
Synonyms
Desulfurolobus Zillig & Bock 1987

In taxonomy, Acidianus is a genus of the Sulfolobaceae.^[1]

Contents

1 See Also
2 References
3 Further reading
4 External links

See Also

List of bacterial genera named after mythological figures

References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Acidianus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

Further reading

Scientific journals

Segerer A, Neuner AM, Kristjansson JK, Stetter KO (1986). "Acidianus infernus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Acidianus brierleyi comb. nov.: facultatively aerobic, extremely acidophilic thermophilic sulfur-metabolizing archaebacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 36 (4): 559–564. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-4-559.

Zillig W, Yeats S, Holz I, Bock A, Rettenberger M, Gropp F, Simon G (1986). "Desulfurolobus ambivalens, gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic archaebacterium facultatively oxidizing or reducing sulfur". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 8: 197–203.

Scientific books

Stetter, KO (1989). "Order III. Sulfolobales ord. nov. Family Sulfolobaceae fam. nov.". In JT Staley, MP Bryant, N Pfennig, and JG Holt, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3 (1st ed.). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co.. pp. p. 169.

Scientific databases

External links