Thermoacidophilic and facultative methane-oxidizing bacterium.
Isolated from a subaqueous mud sample taken from Pisciarelli hot spring (40 deg 49 min 45.1 sec N 14 deg 08 min 49.7 sec E) in Pozzuoli, Italy.
Awala SI, Gwak JH, Kim Y, Seo C, Strazzulli A, Kim SG, Rhee SK
Title
Methylacidiphilum caldifontis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic methane-oxidizing bacterium from an acidic geothermal environment, and descriptions of the family Methylacidiphilaceae fam. nov. and order Methylacidiphilales ord. nov.