Thermoplasma volcanium

Thermoplasma volcanium
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Thermoplasmata
Order: Thermoplasmatales
Family: Thermoplasmataceae
Genus: Thermoplasma
Species: Thermoplasma volcanium
Segerer et al. 1988

Thermoplasma volcanium is an archaeon.[1] Many T. volcanium strains have been isolated from solfatara fields throughout the world. It is highly flagellated, motile, cell wall-deficient, thermoacidophilic, facultatively anaerobic and organotrophic. Its genome has been sequenced.[2]

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References

  1. Segerer, Andreas; Langworthy, Thomas A.; Stetter, Karl O. (1988). "Thermoplasma acidophilum and Thermoplasma volcanium sp. nov. from Solfatara Fields". Systematic and Applied Microbiology 10 (2): 161–171. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(88)80031-6. ISSN 0723-2020.
  2. KAWASHIMA, Tsuyoshi; YAMAMOTO, Yoshihiro; ARAMAKI, Hironori; NUNOSHIBA, Tatsuo; KAWAMOTO, Takeshi; WATANABE, Kohji; YAMAZAKI, Masaaki; KANEHORI, Keiichi; AMANO, Naoki; OHYA, Yoshie; MAKINO, Kozo; SUZUKI, Masashi (1999). "Determination of the complete genomic DNA sequence of Thermoplasma volcanium GSS1". Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Ser. B: Physical and Biological Sciences 75 (7): 213–218. doi:10.2183/pjab.75.213. ISSN 0386-2208.

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