| Entry | T10957 |
| Org code | afh |
| Name | Acidithiobacillus ferrianus MG |
| Category | Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 2678518 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Acidithiobacillia; Acidithiobacillales; Acidithiobacillaceae; Acidithiobacillus; Acidithiobacillus ferrianus |
| Org group | Bacteria; other Pseudomonadota; Acidithiobacillales |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank Assembly: GCA_010378095.2 (Complete Genome) BioProject: 590957 |
| Keywords | Iron oxidation, Sulfur compound oxidation |
| Comment | Isolated from sediment of an acidic pond (approximately 12 m2 surface area) close to the geothermal site at Kalamos on the South coast of the island of Milos, Greece.
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| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP127523) |
| Plasmid | p1MG (GB: CP127524) p2MG (GB: CP127525) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 3046 Number of RNA genes: 57
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| Created | 2025 |
| Reference | PMID: 31980944 |
| Authors | Norris PR, Falagan C, Moya-Beltran A, Castro M, Quatrini R, Johnson DB |
| Title | Acidithiobacillus ferrianus sp. nov.: an ancestral extremely acidophilic and facultatively anaerobic chemolithoautotroph. |
| Journal | Extremophiles 24:329-337 (2020) DOI: 10.1007/s00792-020-01157-1 |