Thermodiscus Explained

Thermodiscus is a genus of archaea in the family Desulfurococcaceae.^[1] The only species is Thermodiscus maritimus.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Burggraf S . Huber H . Stetter KO . 1997 . Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data . Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. . 47 . 657–660 . 9226896 . 10.1099/00207713-47-3-657 . 3. free .
• 6 . Zillig W . Stetter KO . Prangishvilli D . Schafer W . Wunderl S . Janekovic D . Holz I . Palm P . 1982 . Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales . Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. . C3 . 304–317 .

Hamana. Koei. Tanaka. Takehiko. Hosoya. Ryuichi. Niitsu. Masaru. Itoh. Takashi. Cellular polyamines of the acidophilic, thermophilic and thermoacidophilic archaebacteria, Acidilobus, Ferroplasma, Pyrobaculum, Pyrococcus, Staphylothermus, Thermococcus,Thermodiscus and Vulcanisaeta.. The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 2003. 49. 5. 287–293. 10.2323/jgam.49.287. 14673752. free.

Scientific books

• Book: Stetter, KO . 2001 . Genus VII. Thermodiscus gen. nov. . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria . 2nd . DR Boone . RW Castenholz . Springer Verlag . New York . 978-0-387-98771-2 . registration .
• Book: Stetter, KO . 1986 . Diversity of extremely thermophilic archaebacteria . Thermophiles: General, Molecular and Applied Microbiology . TD Brock . Thomas D. Brock . . New York . 978-0-471-82001-7.

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Thermodiscus. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.