''Caldilinea aerophila'' 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, and the type 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 STL-6-O1
T (=JCM 11388
T =DSM 14525
T).
See also
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Bioaugmentation
Biological augmentation is the addition of archaea or bacterial cultures required to speed up the rate of degradation of a contaminant. Organisms that originate from contaminated areas may already be able to break down waste, but perhaps inefficien ...
References
Further reading
*Costello, Elizabeth Kate. Molecular Phylogenetic Characterization of High Altitude Soil Microbial Communities and Novel, Uncultivated Bacterial Lineages. ProQuest, 2007.
*Dilek, Yıldırım. Links Between Geological Processes, Microbial Activities & Evolution of Life: Microbes and Geology. Eds. Yildirim Dilek, H. Furnes, and Karlis Muehlenbachs. Vol. 4. Springer, 2008.
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Caldilinea aerophila'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Gram-negative bacteria
Thermophiles
Chloroflexota
Bacteria described in 2003
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