Aciduliprofundum

Aciduliprofundum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Genus:	Candidatus Aciduliprofundum
Species
Ca. A. boonei

In taxonomy, Aciduliprofundum is a genus of the Euryarchaeota.^[1]

A. boonei, an extremophile that lives in oceanic hydrothermal vents, has been shown to produce antibiotics against common pathogenic bacteria.^[2]

References

↑ See the NCBI webpage on Aciduliprofundum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
↑ http://phys.org/news/2014-11-life-extremists-untapped-source-antibacterial.html

Further reading

Scientific journals

Reysenbach AL, Liu YT, Banta AB, Beveridge TJ, Kirshtein JD, Schouten S, Tivey MK, Von Damm K, Voytek MA (2006). "A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents". Nature. 442 (7101): 444–447. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..444R. doi:10.1038/nature04921. PMID 16871216.
Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 1): 7–76. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-1-7. PMID 11837318.
Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML (1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 87 (12): 4576–4579. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.4576W. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMC 54159. PMID 2112744.

Scientific books

Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov.". In DR Boone, RW Castenholz. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.

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