Acidianus

In taxonomy, Acidianus is a genus of the Sulfolobaceae.^[1]

Acidianus
Acidianus convivator cell showing extrusion of Acidianus two-tailed virus particles.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Sulfolobales
Family:	Sulfolobaceae
Genus:	Acidianus Segerer, Neuner, Kristjansson & Stetter 1986
Species
A. ambivalens A. brierleyi "A. convivator" "Ca. A. copahuensis" "A. hospitalis" A. infernus "A. manzaensis" "A. pozzuoliensis" A. sulfidivorans "A. tengchongenses" "A. uzoniensis"
Synonyms
"Desulfurolobus" Zillig & Bock 1987 "Sulfosphaerellus" Zhong et al. 1982

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[1]

16S rRNA based LTP_06_2022[3][4][5]	53 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[6][7][8]
Acidianus A. sulfidivorans A. ambivalens A. infernus	Acidianus "Ca. A. copahuensis" Giaveno et al. 2013 "A. manzaensis" Yoshida et al. 2006 A. sulfidivorans Plumb et al. 2007 A. infernus Segerer et al. 1986 A. ambivalens (Zillig & Böck 1987) Fuchs et al. 1996 "A. hospitalis" Bettstetter et al. 2003

See also

• List of Archaea genera
• List of bacterial genera named after mythological figures

References

1. Sayers; et al. "Acidianus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
2. J.P. Euzéby. "Acidianus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
3. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 May 2023.
4. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 May 2023.
5. "LTP_06_2022 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
6. "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
7. "ar53_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
8. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Segerer A; Neuner AM; Kristjansson JK; Stetter KO (1986). "Acidianus infernus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Acidianus brierleyi comb. nov.: facultatively aerobic, extremely acidophilic thermophilic sulfur-metabolizing archaebacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 36 (4): 559–564. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-4-559.
• Zillig W; Yeats S; Holz I; Bock A; Rettenberger M; Gropp F; Simon G (1986). "Desulfurolobus ambivalens, gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic archaebacterium facultatively oxidizing or reducing sulfur". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 8 (3): 197–203. doi:10.1016/s0723-2020(86)80077-7.
• Giaveno, M. Alejandra; Urbieta, M. Sofia; Ulloa, J. Ricardo; Toril, Elena Gonzalez; Donati, Edgardo R. (3 October 2012). "Physiologic Versatility and Growth Flexibility as the Main Characteristics of a Novel Thermoacidophilic Acidianus Strain Isolated from Copahue Geothermal Area in Argentina". Environmental Microbiology. 65 (2): 336–346. doi:10.1007/s00248-012-0129-4. hdl:11336/4310. PMID 23052926. S2CID 12798711.
• Li, Sen; Yang, Jie (21 August 2014). "System analysis of synonymous codon usage biases in archaeal virus genomes". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 355: 128–129. Bibcode:2014JThBi.355..128L. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.03.022. PMC 7094158. PMID 24685889.

Scientific books

• Stetter, KO (1989). "Order III. Sulfolobales ord. nov. Family Sulfolobaceae fam. nov.". In JT Staley; MP Bryant; N Pfennig; JG Holt (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 3 (1st ed.). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co. p. 169.

External links

• Acidianus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase