| Thermodiscus maritumus |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Archaea Extremely Thermophilic Archaeobacteria |
| Compare | Acidianus Desulfurococcus, Desulfurolobus ambivalens Hyperthermus butylicus , Metallosphaera sedula Pyrobaculum Pyrococcus, Pyrodictium Staphylothermus marinus Sulfolobus Thermococcus Thermodiscus maritimus Thermofilum, Thermoproteus |
| Contrast | Archaea
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| Subset |
| Morphology | Thermodiscus maritumus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | highly irregular dish to disk shaped cells |
| Motility | non motile |
| Specialized structures | pilus like structures 0.01 um by 15 um observed |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Thermodiscus maritumus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | heterotrophs growth on yeast extract |
| Oxygen | strict anaerobes |
| pH | range pH 5-7 optimum pH 5.5 |
| Temperature | range 75-98 oC optimum 88 oC |
| Requires | salt range is 1-4% NaCl optimum 2% |
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| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | submarine solfatara fields close to Volcano Italy |
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| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Thermodiscus maritumus |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Thermodiscus maritumus |
| First citation | Stetter et al 1986 In Thermophiles: General, molecular and Applied Microbiology, T. D. Brock ed. J. Wiley and Sons Chicester England pp 39-74 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 754 |
| References |