Thermococcus sp. (DSM 12593, BK17S-3-a9, P6)

Name: Thermococcus sp. (DSM 12593, BK17S-3-a9, P6)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 16861

Type strain

Strain Designation BK17S-3-a9, P6

Culture col. no. DSM 12593 BK17S-3-a9 P6

NCBI tax ID(s) 35749

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M. Thomm, Univ. Kiel, Germany; P6 (Aphrodite sulfophila) <- H. Arab and M. Thomm {1997}

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BK17S-3-a9 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from hydrothermal site off Palaeochori Bay.

anaerobe genome sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407140

DSM 12593

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:52

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermococci

Order Thermococcales

Family Thermococcaceae

Genus Thermococcus

Full scientific name Thermococcus Zillig 1983

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4689	MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4689	positive	growth	85

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
4689	anaerobe
125439	obligate anaerobe	99.802

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		97.073
125438		93.264

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4689	hydrothermal site off Palaeochori Bay	Aegean Sea, Milos	Greece	GRC	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM221452v1 assembly for Thermococcus sp. P6	complete	GCA_002214525	122420.3	2758568029	122420	96.85

GC content

4689

GC-content (mol%)56.0

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM221452v1 assembly for Thermococcus sp. P6
NCBI: GCA_002214525

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate anaerobe	99.80	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	68.45	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	62.19	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	97.07	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermococcus sp. P6 P6
NCBI: GCA_002214525.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	67.86	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	84.81	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	85.97	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	93.26	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	86.67	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	85.58	no

Literature

References

#4689	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12593
#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) .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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