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Thermus

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Domain
  
Bacteria

Class
  
Deinococci

Family
  
Thermaceae

Phylum
  
Deinococcus–Thermus

Order
  
Thermales

Thermus

Genus
  
ThermusBrock & Freeze, 1969

Thermus is a genus of thermophilic bacteria. It is one of several bacteria belonging to the Deinococcus–Thermus group. It includes the following species:

  • "T. caldophilus" * Taguchi et al. 1983
  • "T. eggertssonii" * Peters 2008
  • "T. kawarayensis" * Kurosawa et al. 2005
  • "T. murrieta" * Benner et al. 2006
  • "T. nonproteolyticus" * 1992
  • "T. parvatiensis" * Dwivedi et al. 2015
  • Thermus profundus * Kobayashi et al. 1995
  • "T. rehai" * Lin et al. 2002
  • "T. yunnanensis" * Gong et al. 2005
  • Thermus amyloliquefaciens Yu et al. 2015
  • Thermus antranikianii Chung, Rainey, Valente, Nobre, & da Costa, 2000
  • Thermus aquaticus Brock & Freeze, 1969
  • Thermus arciformis Zhang et al. 2010
  • Thermus brockianus Williams et al. 1995
  • Thermus caliditerrae Ming et al. 2014
  • Thermus chliarophilus Tenreiro et al. 1995
  • Thermus composti Vajna et al. 2012
  • Thermus filiformis Hudson et al. 1987
  • Thermus igniterrae Chung, Rainey, Valente, Nobre, & da Costa, 2000
  • Thermus islandicus Bjornsdottir et al. 2009
  • Thermus oshimai Williams et al. 1996
  • Thermus tengchongensis Yu, Yao, Ming, Yin, Zhou, Liu, Tang & Li, 2013
  • Thermus thermophilus (ex Oshima and Imahori 1974) Manaia et al. 1995

    • Phylogeny

    The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 123 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project


    Note:
    * Strains found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LSPN)

    References

    Thermus Wikipedia
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