Entry
Org code
vab
Name
Vulcanimicrobium alpinum WC8-2 (Vulcanimicrobium alpinus WC8-2)
Category
Type strain
Annotation
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Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Bacillati; Vulcanimicrobiota; Vulcanimicrobiia; Vulcanimicrobiales; Vulcanimicrobiaceae; Vulcanimicrobium
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Keywords
Carbon fixation, Anoxygenic photosynthesis
Comment
Mesophilic strict aerobe.
Isolated from a sediment derived from Warren Cave, fumarolic ice cave, in Mt. Erebus volcano (Antarctica).
Chromosome
Statistics
Number of protein genes: 3577
Number of RNA genes: 57
Created
2023
Reference
Authors
Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM
Title
Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph.
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