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The Genus Thermomicrobium

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The Prokaryotes

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Thermomicrobium roseum (ATCC 27502), the sole representative of a phylogenetically distinct branch of the eubacteria, is an obligate thermophile originally isolated from the effluent of a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, WY (Jackson et al., 1973). The grouping of T. roseum with the green nonsulfur (GNS) bacteria is based on ribosomal RNA sequence comparisons (Oyaizu et al., 1987). The sequence of 5S rRNA from T. roseum (Van den Eynde et al., 1990) affirms that it should be clustered with Chloroflexus. Herpetosiphon and Chloroflexus, the other representatives in this branch, are markedly different phenotypically from T. roseum (for a review see Kristjansson and Alfredsson, 1992). Although the GNS bacteria share some common ribosomal characters, they are the progeny of a deep phylogenetic divergence (Gibson et al., 1985); Herpetosiphon is a mesophile and more rapidly evolving than either Chloroflexus or Thermomicrobium. The deepest branching in eubacterial evolution...

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

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Perry, J.J. (2006). The Genus Thermomicrobium . In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30747-8_35

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