Entry
Org code
tma
Name
Thermotoga maritima MSB8
Category
Reference genome; Type strain
Annotation
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Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Thermotogota; Thermotogae; Thermotogales; Thermotogaceae; Thermotoga
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
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Data source
Comment
Non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium.
Grows optimally temperature of 80 deg C.
Metabolizes many simple and complex carbohydrates including glucose, sucrose, starch, cellulose and xylan.
Isolated from geothermal heated marine sediment at Porto di Levante, Vulcano, Italy.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
1860725
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 1860725
Number of protein genes: 1846
Number of RNA genes: 49
Created
1999
Reference
Authors
Nelson KE, Clayton RA, Gill SR, Gwinn ML, Dodson RJ, Haft DH, Hickey EK, Peterson JD, Nelson WC, Ketchum KA, et al.
Title
Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima.
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