Thermococcus gorgonarius (DSM 10395, ATCC 700654, JCM 10552)

Name: Thermococcus gorgonarius (DSM 10395, ATCC 700654, JCM 10552)
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BacDive ID 16872

Type strain

Strain Designation W-12

Culture col. no. DSM 10395 ATCC 700654 JCM 10552 W-12

NCBI tax ID(s) 71997

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, W-12 JCM <-- DSM 10395 <-- E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya W-12.

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Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from sand from the shore.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44060

ATCC 700654,DSM 10395,JCM 10552

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:28:53

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Thermococci

Order Thermococcales

Family Thermococcaceae

Genus Thermococcus

Species Thermococcus gorgonarius

Full scientific name Thermococcus gorgonarius Miroshnichenko et al. 1998

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3930	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)
3930	positive	growth	85
67770	positive	growth	85

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
3930	anaerobe
125439	anaerobe	99.142

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		91.721
125438		90.718

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sandy

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3930	sand from the shore	Whale Island	New Zealand	NZL	Australia and Oceania
67770	Geothermal vent in the tidal zone of Whale Island		New Zealand	NZL	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3930	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM221438v1 assembly for Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12	complete	GCA_002214385	71997.4	2758568023	71997	99.46

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Thermococcus gorgonarius 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 10395 Type	AJ291809	1310	71997
20218	Thermococcus gorgonarius strain DSM 10395 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099177	1445	71997
20218	Thermococcus gorgonarius strain DSM 10395 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099213	183	71997
20218	Thermococcus gorgonarius gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:JCM 10552	AB055123	1423	71997
67770	Thermococcus gorgonarius 16S rRNA gene	Y16226	1335	71997

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	50.6	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM221438v1 assembly for Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12
NCBI: GCA_002214385

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	99.14	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	78.99	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	75.65	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	91.72	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12
NCBI: GCA_002214385.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	68.17	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	87.63	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	87.24	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.72	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	81.20	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.46	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	A 'universal' type II chaperonin PCR detection system for the investigation of Archaea in complex microbial communities.	Chaban B, Hill JE.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2011.96	2012
Phylogeny	Thermococcus gorgonarius sp. nov. and Thermococcus pacificus sp. nov.: heterotrophic extremely thermophilic archaea from New Zealand submarine hot vents.	Miroshnichenko ML, Gongadze GM, Rainey FA, Kostyukova AS, Lysenko AM, Chernyh NA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-48-1-23	1998

References

#3930	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 10395
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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;
#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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Thermococcus gorgonarius (DSM 10395, ATCC 700654, JCM 10552)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_002214385

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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