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Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2009
Miroshnichenko Margarita L, Lebedinsky Alexander V, Chernyh N A, Tourova Tatyana P, Kolganova Tatyana V, Spring Stefan, Bonch-Osmolovskaya Elizaveta A
Abstract excerpt
An extremely thermophilic, strictly anaerobic, facultatively chemolithoautotrophic bacterium designated strain DS(T) was isolated from Treshchinnyi Spring, one of the hottest springs of the Uzon Caldera (Kamchatka, Russia). Cells of the novel organism were Gram-negative rods, about 1.0-1.2 microm long and 0.5 microm wide. The temperature range for growth was 52-82 degrees C, with an optimum at 75 degrees C....
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