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Thermotogales

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

Members of the Thermotogales represent a very deep phylogenetic branch within the 16S rRNA gene tree. Within the order, members of the genus Thermotoga have an upper temperature border of growth at 90°C and represent, together with members of the order Aquificales, the bacteria with the highest growth temperatures known so far. Representatives of the Thermotogales are widespread and cosmopolitan, and they thrive mainly in volcanically or geothermally heated environments. Owing to their strictly organotrophic way of life, they are consumers of microbial biomaterial within high temperature ecosystems.

For the Thermotogales, the following order criteria are characteristic: thermophilic, nonsporeforming, rod-shaped cells with an outer sheath-like envelope (‘toga’); Gram-negative, but meso-diaminopimelic acid not present in the peptidoglycan; strictly anaerobic, fermentative bacteria; acetate, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen metabolites from glucose fermentation; inhibition of...

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

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  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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Huber, R., Hannig, M. (2006). Thermotogales. 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_38

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