Ignisphaera

Ignisphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Thermoproteati
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Desulfurococcales
Family:	Desulfurococcaceae
Genus:	Ignisphaera Niederberger et al. 2006
Type species
Ignisphaera aggregans Niederberger et al. 2006
Species
I. aggregans I. cupida

Ignisphaera is a genus of the Desulfurococcales. ^{[1] [2]} Ignisphaera aggregans is a coccoid- shaped, fourth type strain that is strictly anaerobes with anaerobic respiration. This archaea species are hyperthermophiles that were found in New Zealand's hot springs in Kuirau Park, Rotorua. ^[3]

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. Sayers; et al. "Ignisphaera". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy resources. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
2. Meier-Kolthoff, J.P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Peinado-Olarte, R.L.; Göker, M. (2022). "Genus Ignisphaera". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). doi:10.1093/nar/gkab902 . Retrieved 10 May 2025.
3. Göker, Markus; Held, Brittany; Lapidus, Alla; Nolan, Matt; Spring, Stefan; Yasawong, Montri; Lucas, Susan; Glavina Del Rio, Tijana; Tice, Hope; Cheng, Jan-Fang; Goodwin, Lynne (2010-08-20). "Complete genome sequence of Ignisphaera aggregans type strain (AQ1.S1T)". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 3 (1): 66–75. doi:10.4056/sigs.1072907. ISSN   1944-3277. PMC   3035270 . PMID   21304693.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Goeker, Markus; Held, Brittany; Lapidas, Alla (2010). "Complete genome sequence of Ignisphaera aggregans type strain (AQ1.S1T)". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 3 (1): 66–75. doi:10.4056/sigs.1072907. PMC   3035270 . PMID   21304693.
• Niederberger TD, Gotz DK, McDonald IR, Ronimus RS, Morgan HW (2006). "Ignisphaera aggregans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote isolated from hot springs in Rotorua and Tokaanu, New Zealand". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56 (Pt 5): 965–971. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63899-0 . PMID   16627639.
• 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.
• Knappy, Chris S.; Nunn, Charlotte E. M.; Morgan, Hugh W.; Keely, Brendan J. (July 2011). "The major lipid cores of the archaeon Ignisphaera aggregans: implications for the phylogeny and biosynthesis of glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether isoprenoid lipids". Extremophiles. 15 (4): 517–528. doi:10.1007/s00792-011-0382-3. PMID   21630026. S2CID   22854327.

Scientific books

• Huber H, Stetter KO (2001). "Order II. Desulfurococcales ord. nov.". In DR Boone, RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN   978-0-387-98771-2.