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Entrez PubMed Nucleotide Protein Genome Structure PMC Taxonomy BioCollections
   
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Database name Direct links Subtree links Links from type
BioProject 283 314 -
BioSample 3,512 3,540 -
GEO DataSets 123 162 -
Gene 6,297 20,939 -
Identical Protein Groups 127,030 131,411 -
Nucleotide 47,676 50,435 500
PubChem BioAssay 3 3 -
PMC 7,716 7,716 -
Protein 332,963 371,855 -
SRA 662 713 -
Structure 56 139 -
Taxonomy 24 24 -

Streptococcus thermophilus

Taxonomy ID: 1308 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:1308)
current name
Streptococcus thermophilus  Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) in [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)]
type strain of Streptococcus thermophilus: ATCC : 19258 , CCUG : 21957 , CIP : 102303 , DSM : 20617 , JCM : 17834 , BCCM/LMG : 6896 , NCDO : 573 , NCIMB : 8510
homotypic synonym:
Streptococcus thermophilus  (Orla-Jensen 1919) Schleifer et al. 1995 , nom. rev.  1) in [VALIDATION LIST No. 54 (1995)]
Streptococcus salivarius subsp. thermophilus  (Orla-Jensen 1919) Farrow and Collins 1984 in [Validation List No. 15 (1984)]
NCBI BLAST name: firmicutes
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Lineage(full)
cellular organisms; Bacteria; Bacillati; Bacillota; Bacilli; Lactobacillales; Streptococcaceae; Streptococcus

Notes:

Comments and References:

VALIDATION LIST No. 54 (1995)
VALIDATION LIST No. 54. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1995) 45(3):619-620.
Validation List No. 15 (1984)
VALIDATION LIST No. 15. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1984) 34(3):355-357.
Skerman VBD et al. (1980)
Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.
Farrow JA & Collins MD (1984)
Farrow, J.A., and Collins, M.D. "DNA base composition, DNA-DNA homology and long-chain fatty acid studies on streptococcus thermophilus and Streptococcus salivarius." J. Gen. Microbiol. (1984) 130:357-362.
Moore WEC et al. (1985)
Moore, W.E.C., Cato, E.P., and Moore, L.V.H. "Index of the bacterial and yeast nomenclatural changes published in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology since the 1980 Approved Lists of bacterial names (1 January 1980 to 1 January 1985)." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1985) 35(3):382-407. [No PubMed record available.]
Orla-Jensen S (1919)
Orla-Jensen, S.: The lactic acid bacteria. Host & Son, Copenhagen (1919). pp. 1-118. [No PubMed record available.]
Tang T et al. (2025)
Tang, T., Liu, Y., Cao, Y., Cheng, K., Lindsay, D., Bourdichon, F., Dubois-Lozier, A., Bassett, S., Xu, Y., Feng, H., Song, Z., Liu, R., Guo, L., and Yao, S. "Genomic insights support the taxonomic differentiation of Streptococcus thermophilus Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) and Streptococcus salivarius Andrewes and Horder 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) as individual species." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2025) 75(1):006612.
Schleifer KH et al. (1991)
Schleifer, K.H., Ehrmann, M., Krusch, U., and Neve, H. "Revival of the species Streptococcus thermophilus (ex Orla-Jensen, 1919) nom. rev." Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (1991) 14:386-388. [No PubMed record available.]

External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)

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Streptococcus thermophilus type strain (BD-ID 14786) meta-databases BacDive
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Streptococcus thermophilus ND07 organism-specific BioCyc
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Streptococcus thermophilus ATCC 19258 organism-specific BioCyc
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Streptococcus thermophilus taxonomy/phylogenetic Lifemap
OMA taxonomy/phylogenetic OMA Browser: Orthologous MAtrix
Streptococcus thermophilus | SeqCode Registry taxonomy/phylogenetic SeqCode Registry
Streptococcus thermophilus type strain (SI-ID 92381) meta-databases StrainInfo, Leibniz Institute DSMZ
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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.


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