Pyrococcus chitonophagus
| Pyrococcus chitonophagus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Methanobacteriati |
| Phylum: | Methanobacteriota |
| Class: | Thermococci |
| Order: | Thermococcales |
| Family: | Thermococcaceae |
| Genus: | Pyrococcus |
| Species: | P. chitonophagus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pyrococcus chitonophagus Huber and Stetter 1996
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Pyrococcus chitonophagus (Thermococcus chitonophagus pre-2016) is a chitin-degrading, hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.[1] It is anaerobic, round to slightly irregular coccus-shaped, 1.2–2.5 μm in diameter, and motile by means of a tuft of flagella.[2]
- ^ Papadimitriou, Konstantinos; Baharidis, Panagiotis K.; Georgoulis, Anastasios; Engel, Marion; Louka, Maria; Karamolegkou, Georgia; Tsoka, Aggeliki; Blom, Jochen; Pot, Bruno; Malecki, Piotr; Rypniewski, Wojciech; Huber, Harald; Schloter, Michael; Vorgias, Constantinos (May 2016). "Analysis of the complete genome sequence of the archaeon Pyrococcus chitonophagus DSM 10152 (formerly Thermococcus chitonophagus)". Extremophiles. 20 (3): 351–361. doi:10.1007/s00792-016-0826-x. PMID 27016195.
- ^ Huber, R.; Stöhr, Josef; Hohenhaus, Sabine; Rachel, Reinhard; Burggraf, Siegfried; Jannasch, Holger W.; Stetter, Karl O. (1995). "Thermococcus chitonophagus sp. nov., a novel, chitin-degrading, hyperthermophilic archaeum from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent environment". Archives of Microbiology. 164 (4): 255–264. doi:10.1007/s002030050262. ISSN 0302-8933. S2CID 36502509.