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Metallosphaera sedula

Taxonomy ID: 43687 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:43687)

current name

Metallosphaera sedula Huber et al. 1989 in in [Validation List No. 31 (1989)] , [Huber G et al. (1989)]

type strain of Metallosphaera sedula: ATCC : 51363 , DSM : 5348 , IFO : 15509 , JCM : 9185 , NBRC : 15509 , personal : TH2

includes:

Sulfolobus sp. IFO 15160

Metallosphaera sp. TA-2

Metallosphaera sp. MJ1HA

NCBI BLAST name: crenarchaeotes
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym Metallosphaera prunae Fuchs et al. 1996 in [Validation List No. 57 (1996)]

type strain of Metallosphaera prunae: DSM : 10039 , personal : Ron 12/II

Lineage(full): cellular organisms; Archaea; Thermoproteati; Thermoproteota; Thermoprotei; Sulfolobales; Sulfolobaceae; Metallosphaera

Comments and References:

Validation List No. 31 (1989)

VALIDATION LIST No. 31. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1989) 39(4):495-497.

Huber G et al. (1989)

Huber, G., Spinnler, C., Gambacorta, A., and Stetter, K.O. "Metallosphaera sedula gen. nov. and sp. nov. represents a new genus of aerobic, metal-mobilizing, thermoacidophilic archaebacteria." Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (1989) 12(1):38-47.

Validation List No. 57 (1996) , Pubmed: abstract

VALIDATION LIST No. 57. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1996) 46(2):625-626.

Fuchs T et al. (1995)

Fuchs, T., Huber, H., Teiner, K., Burggraf, S., and Stetter, K.O. "Metallosphaera prunae, sp. nov., a novel metal-mobilizing, thermoacidophilic Archaeum, isolated from a uranium mine in Germany." Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (1995) 18(4):560-566.

Pooja et al. (2025)

Pooja, Yadav, P., Kumar, A., Hira, P., Rawat, C.D., Lal, R., and Sood, U. "Genome-based reclassification of Metallosphaera prunae as a later heterotypic synonym of Metallosphaera sedula." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2025) 75(12):007004.

External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)

LinkOut	Subject	LinkOut Provider
Metallosphaera prunae Fuchs et al. 1996	taxonomy/phylogenetic	Encyclopedia of life
GOLD: Go0526275	organism-specific	Genomes On Line Database
Metallosphaera prunae	culture/stock collections	Global Catalogue of Microorganisms
8066242294: Metallosphaera prunae Ron 12/II	organism-specific	Integrated Microbial Genomes
Metallosphaera prunae \| SeqCode Registry	taxonomy/phylogenetic	SeqCode Registry

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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.