''Anaerolinea thermophila'' is a species of filamentous
thermophilic
A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile—that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though they can be bacteria or fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earl ...
bacteria, the type and only species of its genus. It is
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...
, non-
spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Spores form part of the life cycles of many plants, algae, f ...
-forming, with type strain UNI-1
T (=JCM 11387
T =DSM 14523
T).
References
Further reading
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*Satyanarayana, Tulasi, Jennifer Littlechild, and Yutaka Kawarabayasi. "Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology."
*Stroo, Hans F., Andrea Leeson, and C. Herb Ward, eds. Bioaugmentation for Groundwater Remediation. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Anaerolinea thermophila'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Chloroflexota
Thermophiles
Gram-negative bacteria
Bacteria described in 2003
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