Thermococcus chitonophagus

Thermococcus chitonophagus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Thermococci
Order: Thermococcales
Family: Thermococcaceae
Genus: Thermococcus
Species: T. chitonophagus
Binomial name
Thermococcus chitonophagus
Huber and Stetter 1996

Thermococcus chitonophagus is a chitin-degrading hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is anaerobic, round to slightly irregular coccus-shaped, 1.2–2.5 μm in diameter and motile by means of a tuft of flagella.[1]

References

  1. Huber, R.; Stöhr, Josef; Hohenhaus, Sabine; Rachel, Reinhard; Burggraf, Siegfried; Jannasch, Holger W.; Stetter, Karl O. (1995). "Thermococcus chitonophagus sp. nov., a novel, chitin-degrading, hyperthermophilic archaeum from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent environment". Archives of Microbiology 164 (4): 255–264. doi:10.1007/s002030050262. ISSN 0302-8933.

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