Name: Pyrococcus abyssi GE5
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16859

Type strain:

Species: Pyrococcus abyssi

Strain Designation: GE5

Culture col. no.: DSM 25543, CNCM I-1302

Strain history: <- G. Erauso, Lab. Microbiol. de l'IRD/ESIL, Univ. de Provence et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; GE5

NCBI tax ID(s): 29292 (species)

Other strains from Pyrococcus abyssi

P. abyssi JCM 18155 (type strain)

Section

Pyrococcus abyssi GE5 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from hydrothermal vent fluid, 2000 m depth.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Thermococci*
	Order	*Thermococcales*
	Family	*Thermococcaceae*
	Genus	*Pyrococcus*
	Species	"Pyrococcus abyssi"
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Pyrococcus abyssi Erauso et al. 1993

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

STETTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 795)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #18046]			growth	90 °C

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Temperature range

hyperthermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #18046]	Sample type/isolated from	hydrothermal vent fluid, 2000 m depth
[Ref.: #18046]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Pacific Ocean, North Fiji Bassin
[Ref.: #18046]	Country	Kiribati
[Ref.: #18046]	Country ISO 3 Code	KIR
[Ref.: #18046]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
[Ref.: #18046]	Geographic location	-1.9833°/173.0830°
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #18046]	Pyrococcus abyssi strain GE5 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099167	1451	ENA	272844 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Pyrococcus abyssi GE5	638154514	complete	JGI IMG/M	272844 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Pyrococcus abyssi GE5	272844.11	complete	PATRIC	272844 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Pyrococcus abyssi GE5	272844.15	plasmid	PATRIC	272844 tax ID	*

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GC-content

44.7 mol%

sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 25543, CNCM I-1302

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25543

#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) .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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