Picrophilus oshimae

Picrophilus oshimae
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Thermoplasmata
Order: Thermoplasmatales
Family: Picrophilaceae
Genus: Picrophilus
Species: P. oshimae
Binomial name
Picrophilus oshimae
Schleper et al. 1996

Picrophilus oshimae is a species of Archaea described in 1996.[1] Picrophilus oshimae was found in a fumarole in Hokkaido, Japan. The hot spring the fumarole was located in had a pH of 2.2.[2]

See also

References

  1. Schleper; Pühler; Klenk & Zillig (July 1996). "Picrophilus oshimae and Picrophilus tomdus fam. nov., gen. nov., sp. nov., Two Species of Hyperacidophilic, Thermophilic, Heterotrophic, Aerobic Archae" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (International Union of Microbiological Societies) 46 (3): 814–816. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-3-814. ISSN 1466-5034. OCLC 807119723. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. Siddiqui; Thomas, eds. (2008). "Thermoacidophiles and their Protein Adaptation to Low pH and High Temparatures". Protein Adaptation in Extremophiles. Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781604560190. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
External identifiers for Picrophilus oshimae
Encyclopedia of Life 973814
GBIF 106282220

Further reading

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