Hyperthermus

Hyperthermus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Thermoproteati
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Desulfurococcales
Family:	Pyrodictiaceae
Genus:	Hyperthermus Zillig, Holz & Wunderl 1991
Type species
Hyperthermus butylicus Zillig, Holz & Wunderl 1991
Species
H. butylicus "H. hephaesti"

Hyperthermus is a genus of archaeans in the family Pyrodictiaceae. ^[1]

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

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

Further reading

• 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, Holz I, Wunderl S (1991). "Hyperthermus butylicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic, anaerobic, peptide-fermenting, facultatively H2S-generating archaebacterium". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 41: 169–170. doi: 10.1099/00207713-41-1-169 .
• Zillig W, Holz I, Janekovic D, Klenk HP, Imsel E, Trent J, Wunderl S, Forjaz VH, Coutinho R, Ferreira T (1990). "Hyperthermus butylicus, a hyperthermophilic sulfur-reducing archaebacterium that ferments peptides". J. Bacteriol. 172 (7): 3959–3965. doi:10.1128/jb.172.7.3959-3965.1990. PMC   213380 . PMID   2113915.