Kyrpidia Explained

Kyrpidia is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped, thermophilic, spore-forming bacteria.

Bacillus tusciae was first described in 1984, and had been isolated from a geothermal area in Tuscany, Italy. It was placed within the genus Bacillus at that time. Further work on the organism led to the creation of a new genus, Kyrpidia, in 2010. The genus was "named in honor of Nikolaos C. Kyrpides, a Greek-American genomics scientist, who co-initiated the Genomic Encyclopedia of Archaea and Bacteria." K. tusciae is the type species for the genus.^{[1] [2]}

Both species of Kyrpidia have been isolated from areas of high volcanic activity in Tuscany and the Azores. The optimum temperature for growth for both members of the genus is approximately 55 °C.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

Notes and References

1. Bonjour . Fabienne . Aragno . Michel . Bacillus tusciae, a new species of thermoacidophilic, facultatively chemolithoautotrophic hydrogen oxidizing sporeformer from a geothermal area . Archives of Microbiology . November 1984 . 139 . 4 . 397–401 . 10.1007/BF00408386.
2. Klenk . Hans-Peter . Lapidus . Alla . Chertkov . Olga . Copeland . Alex . Del Rio . Tijana Glavina . Nolan . Matt . Lucas . Susan . Chen . Feng . Tice . Hope . Cheng . Jan-Fang . Han . Cliff . Bruce . David . Goodwin . Lynne . Pitluck . Sam . Pati . Amrita . Ivanova . Natalia . Mavromatis . Konstantinos . Daum . Chris . Chen . Amy . Palaniappan . Krishna . Chang . Yun-juan . Land . Miriam . Hauser . Loren . Jeffries . Cynthia D. . Detter . John C. . Rohde . Manfred . Abt . Birte . Pukall . Rüdiger . Göker . Markus . Bristow . James . Markowitz . Victor . Hugenholtz . Philip . Eisen . Jonathan A. . Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and Rainey, 2010. . Standards in Genomic Sciences . 23 September 2011 . 5 . 1 . 121–134 . 3236038. 10.4056/sigs.2144922. free .
3. Reiner . Johannes Eberhard . Lapp . Christian Jonas . Bunk . Boyke . Spröer . Cathrin . Overmann . Jörg . Gescher . Johannes . Complete Genome Sequence of Kyrpidia sp. Strain EA-1, a Thermophilic Knallgas Bacterium, Isolated from the Azores . Genome Announcements . 18 January 2018 . 6 . 3 . 10.1128/genomeA.01505-17. free . 5773743 .
4. Reiner . Johannes Eberhard . Jung . Tobias . Lapp . Christian Jonas . Siedler . Marvin . Bunk . Boyke . Overmann . Jörg . Gescher . Johannes . Kyrpidia spormannii sp. nov., a thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing, facultative autotroph, isolated from hydrothermal systems at São Miguel Island, and emended description of the genus Kyrpidia . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 1 December 2018 . 68 . 12 . 3735–3740 . 10.1099/ijsem.0.003037. free .