Thermodiscus

Thermodiscus is a genus of archaea in the family Desulfurococcaceae.^[1] The only species is Thermodiscus maritimus.

Thermodiscus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Proteoarchaeota
Superphylum:	TACK group
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Desulfurococcales
Family:	Desulfurococcaceae
Genus:	Thermodiscus Stetter 2003
Species:	T. maritimus
Binomial name
Thermodiscus maritimus Stetter 2003

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Thermodiscus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• 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.
• Zillig W; Stetter KO; Prangishvilli D; Schafer W; Wunderl S; Janekovic D; et al. (1982). "Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales". Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C3: 304–317.

Hamana, Koei; Tanaka, Takehiko; Hosoya, Ryuichi; Niitsu, Masaru; Itoh, Takashi (2003). "Cellular polyamines of the acidophilic, thermophilic and thermoacidophilic archaebacteria, Acidilobus, Ferroplasma, Pyrobaculum, Pyrococcus, Staphylothermus, Thermococcus, Thermodiscus and Vulcanisaeta". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 49 (5): 287–293. doi:10.2323/jgam.49.287. PMID 14673752.

Scientific books

• Stetter, KO (2001). "Genus VII. Thermodiscus gen. 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.
• Stetter, KO (1986). "Diversity of extremely thermophilic archaebacteria". In TD Brock (ed.). Thermophiles: General, Molecular and Applied Microbiology. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-82001-7.

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