Thermococcus alcaliphilus

Thermococcus alcaliphilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Thermococci
Order:	Thermococcales
Family:	Thermococcaceae
Genus:	Thermococcus
Species:	T. alcaliphilus
Binomial name
Thermococcus alcaliphilus Keller et al. 1997

Thermococcus alcaliphilus is a hyperthermophilic archaeon. It is coccoid-shaped and heterotrophic, first isolated from a shallow marine hydrothermal system at Vulcano Island, Italy. Its type strain is AEDII12 (DSM 10322).[1]

References

1. Keller, Martin; Braun, Franz-Josef; Dirmeier, Reinhard; Hafenbradl, Doris; Burggraf, Siegfried; Rachel, Reinhard; Stetter, Karl O. (1995). "Thermococcus alcaliphilus sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeum growing on polysulfide at alkaline pH". Archives of Microbiology. 164 (6): 390–395. doi:10.1007/BF02529736. ISSN 0302-8933. PMID 8588740. S2CID 31106349.

Further reading

• Horikoshi, K. (December 1999). "Alkaliphiles: some applications of their products for biotechnology". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 63 (4): 735–750. doi:10.1128/MMBR.63.4.735-750.1999. ISSN 1092-2172. PMC 98975. PMID 10585964.
• Dworkin, Martin; Falkow, Stanley, eds. (2006). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Archaea. Bacteria : firmicutes, actinomycetes (3rd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5. OCLC 262691458.
• Marti, Joan; Ernst, Gerald G. J., eds. (2005). Volcanoes and the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511614767. ISBN 978-0-521-59725-8.

External links

• "Thermococcus alcaliphilus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• LPSN
• WORMS
• Type strain of Thermococcus alcaliphilus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase