Acidianus

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Acidianus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Phylum: Crenarchaeota
Class: Thermoprotei
Order: Sulfolobales
Family: Sulfolobaceae
Genus: Acidianus
Species
  • A. ambivalens
  • A. brierleyi
  • A. convivator
  • A. infernus
  • A. manzaensis
  • A. pozzuoliensis
  • A. sp. Acii18
  • A. sp. Acii26
  • A. sp. Acii25
  • A. sp. Acii19
  • A. sp. F28
  • A. sp. JP7
  • A. tengchongenses
  • uncultured Acidianus sp.
Synonyms
  • Acidianus Segerer et al. 1986
  • Desulfurolobus
  • Desulfurolobus Zillig and Bock 1987

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

Contents

[edit] References

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

[edit] Further reading

[edit] 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: 559–564. 
  • 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: 197–203. 

[edit] Scientific books

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

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