Aeropyrum

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Aeropyrum
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Domain: Archaea
Clade: "Proteoarchaeota"
Kingdom: Thermoproteati
Phylum: Thermoproteota
Class: Thermoprotei
Order: Desulfurococcales
Family: Desulfurococcaceae
Genus: Aeropyrum
Sako et al. 1996
Type species
Aeropyrum pernix
Sako et al. 1996
Species

Aeropyrum is a genus of archaea in the family Desulfurococcaceae. [1]

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Etymology

The name Aeropyrum derives from:
Greek noun aer, aeros (ἀήρ, ἀέρος), air; Greek neuter gender noun pur, fire; Neo-Latin neuter gender noun Aeropyrum, air fire, referring to the hyperthermophilic respirative character of the organism. [2]

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely [2]

See also

References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Aeropyrum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. 1 2 Aeropyrum in LPSN ; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 .
  3. Nakagawa, S. (2004). "Aeropyrum camini sp. nov., a strictly aerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (2): 329–335. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.02826-0 . PMID   15023940.
  4. Sako, Y.; Nomura, N.; Uchida, A.; Ishida, Y.; Morii, H.; Koga, Y.; Hoaki, T.; Maruyama, T. (1996). "Aeropyrum pernix gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Aerobic Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Growing at Temperatures up to 100 C". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (4): 1070–1077. doi: 10.1099/00207713-46-4-1070 . PMID   8863437.

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