Aciduliprofundum

Aciduliprofundum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Genus:	Candidatus Aciduliprofundum
Species
Ca. A. boonei

In taxonomy, Aciduliprofundum is a genus of the Euryarchaeota.^[1]

A. boonei, an extremophile that lives in oceanic hydrothermal vents, has been shown to produce antibiotics against common pathogenic bacteria.^[2]

References

↑ See the NCBI webpage on Aciduliprofundum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
↑ http://phys.org/news/2014-11-life-extremists-untapped-source-antibacterial.html

Further reading

Scientific journals

Reysenbach A-L, Liu YT, Banta AB, Beveridge TJ, Kirshtein JD, Schouten S, Tivey MK, Von Damm K, Voytek MA (2006). "A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents". Nature 442 (7101): 444–447. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..444R. doi:10.1038/nature04921. PMID 16871216.

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 (Pt 1): 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 (12): 4576–4579. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.4576W. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMC 54159. PMID 2112744.

Scientific books

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. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.

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