Ignisphaera

Ignisphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Crenarchaeota
Phylum:	Crenarchaeota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Desulfurococcales
Family:	Desulfurococcaceae
Genus:	Ignisphaera
Binomial name
Ignisphaera Niederberger et al. 2006
Species
I. aggregans

In taxonomy, Ignisphaera is a genus of the Desulfurococcales.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Goeker, Markus; Held, Brittany; Lapidas, Alla (2010). "Complete genome sequence of Ignisphaera aggregans type strain (AQ1.S1T)". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 3 (1): 66–75. doi:10.4056/sigs.1072907. PMC 3035270. PMID 21304693.
• Niederberger TD, Gotz DK, McDonald IR, Ronimus RS, Morgan HW (2006). "Ignisphaera aggregans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote isolated from hot springs in Rotorua and Tokaanu, New Zealand". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56 (Pt 5): 965–971. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63899-0. PMID 16627639.
• Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO (1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47 (3): 657–660. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
• Knappy, Chris S.; Nunn, Charlotte E. M.; Morgan, Hugh W.; Keely, Brendan J. (July 2011). "The major lipid cores of the archaeon Ignisphaera aggregans: implications for the phylogeny and biosynthesis of glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether isoprenoid lipids". Extremophiles. 15 (4): 517–528. doi:10.1007/s00792-011-0382-3.

Scientific books

• Huber H, Stetter KO (2001). "Order II. Desulfurococcales ord. nov.". In DR Boone, 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.