Thermococcus
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In taxonomy, Thermococcus is a genus of extreme thermophiles in the family the Thermococcaceae.[1]
They consist of gram-negative spheres that move with flagella. They are organothrophic anaerobes, growing in temperatures above 70°C. Some species require elemental sulphur as electron acceptor, producing hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2), while some species are also able to reduce H+.Thermococcus coalescens is an example species which has cells that can fuse in culturing to produce monster single cells.[2]
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- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Thermococcus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ C.Michael Hogan. 2010. Archaea. eds. E.Monosson & C.Cleveland, Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC.
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- Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2005). "The nomenclatural types of the orders Acholeplasmatales, Halanaerobiales, Halobacteriales, Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Planctomycetales, Prochlorales, Sulfolobales, Thermococcales, Thermoproteales and Verrucomicrobiales are the genera Acholeplasma, Halanaerobium, Halobacterium, Methanobacterium, Methanococcus, Methanomicrobium, Planctomyces, Prochloron, Sulfolobus, Thermococcus, Thermoproteus and Verrucomicrobium, respectively. Opinion 79". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55 (Pt 1): 517–518. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63548-0. PMID 15653928.
- Zillig W, Holz I, Klenk HP, Trent J, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Imsel E, Haas B (1987). "Pyrococcus woesei, sp. nov., an ultra-thermophilic marine Archaebacterium, representing a novel order, Thermococcales". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 9: 62–70.
- Zillig W, Holz L, Janekovic D, Schafer W, Reiter WD (1983). "The archaebacterium Thermococcus celer represents a novel genus within the thermophilic branch of the archaebacteria". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 4: 88–94. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(83)80036-8.
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[edit] External links
- John R. Stevenson. "Microbial Evolution and Systematics". General Microbiology II. http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenjr/mbi202/evolution202.html. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
- NCBI taxonomy page for Thermococcus
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Thermococcus
- Search Species2000 page for Thermococcus
- MicrobeWiki page for Thermococcus
- LSPN page for Thermococcus
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