Thermoproteus
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Thermoproteus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Archaea |
Kingdom: | Crenarchaeota |
Phylum: | Crenarchaeota |
Class: | Thermoprotei |
Order: | Thermoproteales |
Family: | Thermoproteaceae |
Genus: | Thermoproteus Zillig & Stetter, 1982 |
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In taxonomy, Thermoproteus is a genus of the Thermoproteaceae.[1]
These prokaryotes are thermophilic sulphur-dependent organisms related to the genera Sulfolobus, Pyrodictium and Desulfurococcus.[2] They are hydrogen-sulphur autotrophs and can grow at temperatures of up to 95 degrees Celsius.[3]
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References
- ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Thermoproteus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ↑ Woese C, Olsen G. [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Archaebacterial phylogeny: perspectives on the urkingdoms."]. Syst Appl Microbiol 7: 161–77. PMID 11542063.
- ↑ Messner P, Pum D, Sára M, Stetter K, Sleytr U (1986). "Ultrastructure of the cell envelope of the archaebacteria Thermoproteus tenax and Thermoproteus neutrophilus.". J Bacteriol 166 (3): 1046–54. PMID 3086286. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=215230&blobtype=pdf.
Further reading
Scientific journals
- Judicial Commision of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2005). [Expression error: Missing operand for > "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: 517–518. PMID 15653928.
- Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO (1997). [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data"]. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47: 657–660. PMID 9226896.
- Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schafer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz I, Palm P (1981). [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras"]. Zentralbl. Mikrobiol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C2: 205–227.
Scientific books
Scientific databases
- PubMed references for Thermoproteus
- PubMed Central references for Thermoproteus
- Google Scholar references for Thermoproteus
External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Thermoproteus
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Thermoproteus
- Search Species2000 page for Thermoproteus
- MicrobeWiki page for Thermoproteus
- LSPN page for Thermoproteus
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