Thermococcus stetteri
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| Thermococcus stetteri | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Methanobacteriati |
| Phylum: | Methanobacteriota |
| 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 nonmotile.[1] Its type strain is K-3 (DSM 5262). It can grow on starch, pectin, and peptides, but not amino acids.[2]
