Thermococcus alcaliphilus

Thermococcus alcaliphilus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Thermococci
Order: Thermococcales
Family: Thermococcaceae
Genus: Thermococcus
Species: T. alcaliphilus
Binomial name
Thermococcus alcaliphilus
Keller et al. 1997

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]

References

  1. 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.

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