Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans
| Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans | |
|---|---|
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| Endospore of C. hydrogenoformans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Thermoanaerobacterales |
| Family: | Thermoanaerobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Carboxydothermus |
| Species: | C. hydrogenoformans
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| Binomial name | |
| Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Svetlichny 1991
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Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans is an extremely
endospores
.
It was isolated from a hot spring on the Russian volcanic island of
Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) [2]
According to TIGR
evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, "C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen." The microbe owes this to the fact that it has at least five different forms of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase
.
References
- .
- PMID 16311624.
External links
- Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans at dsmz.de
- Type strain of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase