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BioSample 724 1,044 -
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Gene 1,305 11,129 -
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Thermus thermophilus

Taxonomy ID: 274 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:274)
current name
Thermus thermophilus  (ex Oshima and Imahori 1974) Manaia et al. 1995
type strain of Thermus thermophilus: ATCC : 27634 , DSM : 579 , JCM : 10941 , NBRC : 101084 , NCIMB : 11244 , personal : HB8
homotypic synonym:
"Flavobacterium thermophilum" Yoshida and Oshima 1971 , effective name  1)
"Thermus thermophilus"  Oshima and Imahori 1974 , effective name  2)
Thermus aquaticus subsp. thermophilus
Thermus aquaticus thermophilus
NCBI BLAST name: bacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:
heterotypic synonym Thermus flavus
heterotypic synonym Thermus aquaticus flavus
heterotypic synonym Thermus aquaticus (SUBSP. THERMOPHILUS)
heterotypic synonym Thermus aquaticus (SUBSP. FLAVUS)
Lineage(full)
cellular organisms; Bacteria; Thermotogati; Deinococcota; Deinococci; Thermales; Thermaceae; Thermus

Notes:

Comments and References:

da Costa MS et al. (2001)
da Costa, M.S., Nobre, M.F., and Rainey, F.A. "Genus I. Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969, 295AL emend. Nobre, Truper and da Costa 1996b, 605." In: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 404-414. [No PubMed record available.]
Euzeby JP & Kudo T (2001)
Euzeby, J.P., and Kudo, T. "Corrigenda to the Validation Lists." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2001) 51(5):1933-1938.
Manaia CM et al. (1994)
Manaia, C.M., Hoste, B., Gutierrez, M.C., Gillis, M., Ventosa, A., Kersters, K., and da Costa, M.S. "Halotolerant Thermus strains from marine and terrestrial hot springs belong to Thermus thermophilus (ex Oshima and Imahori, 1974) nom. rev. emend." Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (1994) 17:526-532. [No PubMed record available.]
Oshima T & Imahori K (1974)
Oshima, T., and Imahori, K. "Description of Thermus thermophilus (Yoshida and Oshima) comb. nov., a nonsporulating thermophilic bacterium from a Japanese thermal spa." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1974) 24:102-112. [No PubMed record available.]
Saiki T et al. (1972)
Saiki, T., Kunura, R., and Arima, K. "Isolation and characterization of extremely thermophilic bacteria from hot springs." Agric. Biol. Chem. (1972) 36:2357-2366. [No PubMed record available.] (Note: reference for 'Thermus flavus')
VALIDATION LIST No. 54 (1995)
VALIDATION LIST No. 54. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1995) 45:619-620.
Williams RA et al. (1995)
Williams, R.A., Smith, K.E., Welch, S.G., Micallef, J., and Sharp, R.J. "DNA relatedness of Thermus strains, description of Thermus brockianus sp. nov., and proposal to reestablish Thermus thermophilus (Oshima and Imahori)." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1995) 45:495-499. [Authors' correction: Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1996) 46:629.]
Yoshida M & Oshima T (1971)
Yoshida, M., and Oshima, T. "The thermostable allosteric nature of fructose 1,6-diphosphatase from an extreme thermophile." Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (1971) 45:495-500. [No abstract available.] (Note: reference for 'Flavobacterium thermophilum')

External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)

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Thermus thermophilus type strain (BD-ID 16717) meta-databases BacDive
Thermus thermophilus isolate TTHNAR1 genome assembly organism-specific BioCyc
Thermus thermophilus isolate TTHNAR1 genome assembly organism-specific BioCyc
Flavobacterium thermophilum Loginova and Egorova 1982 taxonomy/phylogenetic Encyclopedia of life
GOLD: 17 Organisms organism-specific Genomes On Line Database
Show Biotic Interactions taxonomy/phylogenetic Global Biotic Interactions
Thermus thermophilus culture/stock collections Global Catalogue of Microorganisms
Related Immune Epitope Information gene/protein/disease-specific Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource
2814123327: Thermus thermophilus TMY organism-specific Integrated Microbial Genomes
8002799457: Thermus thermophilus TMY organism-specific Integrated Microbial Genomes
8073302564: Thermus thermophilus SNM1-7 organism-specific Integrated Microbial Genomes
OMA taxonomy/phylogenetic OMA Browser: Orthologous MAtrix
Thermus thermophilus | SeqCode Registry taxonomy/phylogenetic SeqCode Registry
Thermus thermophilus type strain (SI-ID 5028) meta-databases StrainInfo, Leibniz Institute DSMZ
Thermus thermophilus taxonomy/phylogenetic TreeBase
Wikipedia taxonomy/phylogenetic iPhylo
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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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