KEGG   GENOME: Thermotoga maritima MSB8
Entry
T00022            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
tma
Name
Thermotoga maritima MSB8
Category
Reference genome; Type strain
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:243274
  Lineage
Bacteria; Thermotogati; Thermotogota; Thermotogae; Thermotogales; Thermotogaceae; Thermotoga; Thermotoga maritima
Org group
Bacteria; Thermotogota; Thermotogales
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
Data source
GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000008545.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 111
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 (GB:AE000512)
Statistics
Number of protein genes:        1846
Number of RNA genes:              49
Created
1999
Reference
PMID:10360571
  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.
  Journal
Nature 399:323-9 (1999)
DOI:10.1038/20601
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