Cite this strain

Vulcanisaeta sp. (JCM 16159)

Name: Vulcanisaeta sp. (JCM 16159)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 161735

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 16159

NCBI tax ID(s) 1295371

Special Collections JCM

History JCM <-- T. Itoh IC-237.

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JCM 16159 is an archaeon that was isolated from Hot spring water from Oyakotsu-jigoku .

genome sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 131583

JCM 16159

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:44:45

Domain Archaea

Phylum Thermoproteota

Class Thermoprotei

Order Thermoproteales

Family Thermoproteaceae

Genus Vulcanisaeta

Full scientific name Vulcanisaeta Itoh et al. 2002

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence	Motility
125439	positive	90.609
125439		96.299

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67770	positive	growth	85

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	93.948

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
67770	Hot spring water from Oyakotsu-jigoku (hell)	Wakoto, Hokkaido	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM131626v1 assembly for Vulcanisaeta sp. JCM 16159	contig	GCA_001316265	1295371.3	2681813017	1295371	36.88

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM131626v1 assembly for Vulcanisaeta sp. JCM 16159
BV-BRC: 1295371.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	90.61	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	93.95	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	96.30	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	49.78	no

Literature

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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