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Thermococcus stetteri

Thermococcus stetteri
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Thermococci
Order: Thermococcales
Family: Thermococcaceae
Genus: Thermococcus
Species: T. stetteri
Binomial name
Thermococcus stetteri
Miroshnichenko 1990

Thermococcus stetteri is an extremely thermophilic marine sulfur-metabolizing archaebacterium. It is anaerobic, its cells being irregular cocci 1 to 2 μm in diameter. Of the strains first isolated, two were motile due to a tuft of flagella, while the other two strains were non-motile. Its type strain is K-3 (DSM 5262). It can grow on starch, pectin and peptides but not amino acids.



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