Thermus

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Thermus
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Thermus aquaticus
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Deinococcota
Class: Deinococci
Order: Thermales
Family: Thermaceae
Genus: Thermus
Brock & Freeze 1969
Type species
Thermus aquaticus
Brock & Freeze 1969
Species

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Thermus is a genus of thermophilic bacteria. It is one of several bacteria belonging to the Deinococcota phylum. Thermus species can be distinguished from other genera in the family Thermaceae as well as all other bacteria by the presence of eight conserved signature indels (CSIs) found in proteins such as adenylate kinase and replicative DNA helicase as well as 14 conserved signature proteins (CSPs) that are exclusively shared by members of this genus. [1]

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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) [2] and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). [3] [4] [5]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023 [6] [7] [8] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214 [9] [10] [11]
Thermus

T. oshimaiWilliams et al. 1996 [12]

T. filiformisHudson et al. 1987 [13]

T. thermophilus (ex Oshima and Imahori 1974) Manaia et al. 1995 [14]

T. compostiVajna et al. 2012 [15]

T. aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 [16]

T. arciformisZhang et al. 2010 [17]

T. islandicusBjornsdottir et al. 2009 [18]

T. hydrothermalisLi et al. 2023

T. brockianusWilliams et al. 1995 [19]

T. thalpophilusLi et al. 2023

T. sediminisZhou et al. 2021

T. igniterrae Chung et al. 2000 [20]

T. thermamylovoransMing et al. 2020

T. caldilimiLi et al. 2021

T. tengchongensisYu et al. 2013 [21]

T. caliditerraeMing et al. 2014 [22]

T. brevisHu et al. 2022

T. tenuipuniceusZhou et al. 2019

T. albusLi et al. 2023

T. altitudinisLi et al. 2023

T. caldifontisKhan et al. 2017

T. neutrinimicusLi et al. 2023

T. amyloliquefaciensYu et al. 2015 [23]

T. antranikianii Chung et al. 2000 [20]

T. scotoductusKristjansson et al. 1994 [24]

Thermus

T. filiformis

T. oshimai

T. islandicus

T. aquaticus

T. sediminis

T. arciformis

"T. kawarayensis" Kurosawa, Itoh & Itoh 2005

T. composti

"T. parvatiensis" Dwivedi et al. 2015

T. thermophilus

T. brockianus

T. igniterrae

T. thermamylovorans

T. caliditerrae

T. tengchongensis

T. amyloliquefaciens

T. caldifontis

T. caldilimi

T. tenuipuniceus

T. antranikianii

T. scotoductus

Species incertae sedis: [25]

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