Meiothermus cerbereus (DSM 11377, GY-5)

Name: Meiothermus cerbereus (DSM 11377, GY-5)
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BacDive ID 16702

Type strain

Strain Designation GY-5

Culture col. no. DSM 11377 GY-5

NCBI tax ID(s) 65552

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M.S. da Costa, GY-5

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Meiothermus cerbereus GY-5 is a bacterium that was isolated from hot springs.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49089

DSM 11377

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:50

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Meiothermus

Species Meiothermus cerbereus

Full scientific name Meiothermus cerbereus Chung et al. 1997

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Meiothermus cerbereus** (1)	Type strain
16701	M. cerbereus GY-1, DSM 11376 (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4318	CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASTENHOLZ MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 86; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Tryptone 1.0 g/l NaNO3 0.689 g/l Na2HPO4 x 2 H2O 0.14 g/l KNO3 0.103 g/l Sodium thiosulphate 0.1 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.1 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.1 g/l CaSO4 x 2 H2O 0.06 g/l NaCl 0.008 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0022 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0005 g/l H3BO3 0.0005 g/l FeCl3 x 6 H2O 0.00047 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 4.6e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 2.5e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 2.5e-05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4318	positive	growth	50

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4318	hot springs	Geysir area	Iceland	ISL	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence Y13595 (>99% sequence identity) for Meiothermus cerbereus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	370
Soil Samples	19
Animal Samples	460
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	854

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4318	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4318	Meiothermus cerbereus 16S rRNA gene, strain GY-5, partial	Y13595	1436		65552

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Meiothermus cerbereus sp. nov., a new slightly thermophilic species with high levels of 3-hydroxy fatty acids.	Chung AP, Rainey F, Nobre MF, Burghardt J, da Costa MS	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-47-4-1225	1997

References

#4318	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11377
#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 )
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#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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Meiothermus cerbereus (DSM 11377, GY-5)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

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Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

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