''Nautilia lithotrophica'' is a
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 ...
sulfur
Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...
-reducing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea
hydrothermal vent
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspot ...
. It is strictly anaerobic, with type strain 525
T (= DSM 13520
T).
References
Further reading
*Satyanarayana, T., and B. N. Johri. Microbial diversity: current perspectives and potential applications. IK International Pvt Ltd, 2005.
*Voordeckers, James Walter. Physiology and molecular ecology of chemolithoautotrophic nitrate reducing bacteria at deep sea hydrothermal vents. ProQuest, 2007.
*Satyanarayana, Tulasi, Jennifer Littlechild, and Yutaka Kawarabayasi. "Thermophilic Microbes in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology."
External links
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LPSNWORMSType strain of ''Nautilia lithotrophica'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Campylobacterota
Bacteria described in 2002
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