Extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic bacterium.
Isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent at the Eastern Lau Spreading Centre in the Pacific Ocean (21 deg 59 min 35 sec S, 176 deg 34 min 06 sec W), at a depth of 1870 m in June 2009.
Slobodkina G, Allioux M, Merkel A, Alain K, Jebbar M, Slobodkin A
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Genome analysis of Thermosulfuriphilus ammonigenes ST65(T), an anaerobic thermophilic chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent.