Caldimicrobium

Caldimicrobium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class:	Thermodesulfobacteria
Order:	Thermodesulfobacteriales
Family:	Thermodesulfobacteriaceae
Genus:	Caldimicrobium Miroshnichenko et al. 2009 [1]
Type species
Caldimicrobium rimae Miroshnichenko et al. 2009
Species [2]
C. rimae C. thiodismutans
Synonyms
"Caldus" [3] "Thermosulfurisoma"

Caldimicrobium is a genus of bacteria from the family of Thermodesulfobacteriaceae. ^{[1] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Caldimicrobium is an anaerobic thermophile which is roughly 1.0–1.2 micrometers long and 0.5 micrometers wide. ^[7]

Phylogeny

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

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 [8] [9] [10]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226 [11] [12] [13]
Thermodesulfobacteriaceae Thermosulfurimonas Caldimicrobium rimae Miroshnichenko et al. 2009 Caldimicrobium thiodismutans Kojima, Umezawa & Fukui 2016 Thermodesulfobacterium	Thermodesulfobacteriaceae Thermosulfurimonas Caldimicrobium thiodismutans Thermodesulfobacterium

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. Caldimicrobium in LPSN ; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1–D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
2. Schoch CL; et al. "Caldimicrobium". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
3. "Caldimicrobium". www.uniprot.org.
4. Anitori, Roberto Paul (2012). Extremophiles: Microbiology and Biotechnology. Horizon Scientific Press. ISBN   9781904455981.
5. Falkiewicz-Dulik, Michalina; Janda, Katarzyna; Wypych, George (2015). Handbook of Material Biodegradation, Biodeterioration, and Biostablization. Elsevier. ISBN   9781927885024.
6. Parker, Charles Thomas; Taylor, Dorothea; Garrity, George M (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Caldimicrobium Miroshnichenko et al. 2009 emend. Kojima et al. 2016". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.14321.
7. Miroshnichenko, M. L.; Lebedinsky, A. V.; Chernyh, N. A.; Tourova, T. P.; Kolganova, T. V.; Spring, S.; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A. (May 1, 2009). "Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (5): 1040–1044. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.006072-0 . PMID   19406789.
8. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
9. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
10. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
11. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
12. "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
13. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.

Further reading

• Miroshnichenko, ML; Lebedinsky, AV; Chernyh, NA; Tourova, TP; Kolganova, TV; Spring, S; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, EA (May 2009). "Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (Pt 5): 1040–4. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.006072-0 . PMID   19406789.
• Kojima, H; Umezawa, K; Fukui, M (April 2016). "Caldimicrobium thiodismutans sp. nov., a sulfur-disproportionating bacterium isolated from a hot spring, and emended description of the genus Caldimicrobium". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (4): 1828–31. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000947 . hdl: 2115/64925 . PMID   26842785.