Metallosphaera

Metallosphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Thermoproteati
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Sulfolobales
Family:	Sulfolobaceae
Genus:	Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989
Type species
Metallosphaera sedula Huber et al. 1989
Species
M. cuprina M. hakonensis M. javensis M. prunae M. sedula M. tengchongensis "M. yellowstonensis"

Metallosphaera is a genus of archaeans in the family Sulfolobaceae. ^[1]

Phylogeny

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

16S rRNA based LTP_06_2022 [3] [4] [5]	53 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226 [6] [7] [8]
Metallosphaera M. tengchongensis M. prunae M. sedula M. cuprina M. hakonensis	Metallosphaera "M. yellowstonensis" Kozubal et al. 2011 M. tengchongensisPeng et al. 2015 M. cuprinaLiu et al. 2011 M. hakonensis (Takayanagi et al. 1996) Kurosawa, Itoh & Itoh 2003 M. javensisHofmann et al. 2022 M. sedula Huber et al. 1989 [incl. M. prunaeFuchs et al. 1996]

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. Sayers; et al. "Metallosphaera". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
2. J.P. Euzéby. "Metallosphaera". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
3. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 May 2023.
4. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 May 2023.
5. "LTP_06_2022 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
6. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
7. "ar53_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
8. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Huber G; Spinnler C; Gambacorta A; Stetter KO (1989). "Metallosphaera sedula gen. nov. and sp. nov. represents a new genus of aerobic, metal-mobilizing, thermoacidophilic archaebacteria" (PDF). Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 12 (1): 38–47. Bibcode:1989SyApM..12...38H. doi:10.1016/s0723-2020(89)80038-4.
• Jennings, Ryan; Whitmore, Laura; Moran, James; Kreuzer, Helen; Innskeep, William (14 February 2014). "Carbon Dioxide Fixation by Metallosphaera yellowstonensis and Acidothermophilic Iron-Oxidizing Microbial Communities from Yellowstone National Park". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80 (9): 2665–2671. Bibcode:2014ApEnM..80.2665J. doi:10.1128/aem.03416-13. PMC   3993312 . PMID   24532073.
• McCarthy, Samuel; Ai, Chenbing; Wheaton, Garrett; Tevatia, Rahul; Eckrich, Valerie; Kelly, Robert; Blum, Paul (2014). "Role of an Archaeal PitA Transporter in the Copper and Arsenic Resistance of Metallosphaera sedula, an Extreme Thermoacidophile". Journal of Bacteriology. 196 (20): 3562–3570. doi:10.1128/JB.01707-14. ISSN   0021-9193. PMC   4187696 . PMID   25092032.

Scientific books

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

External links

• Metallosphaera at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase