Name: Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16872

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus gorgonarius

Strain Designation: W-12

Culture col. no.: DSM 10395, ATCC 700654, JCM 10552

Strain history: DSM 10395 <-- E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya W-12.

NCBI tax ID(s): 71997 (species)

SI-ID 44060

ATCC 700654, DSM 10395, JCM 10552

Special Collections

DSMZ
JCM

Section

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

Gram-negative
anaerobe
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	*Thermococcus*
	Species	**Thermococcus gorgonarius**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus gorgonarius Miroshnichenko et al. 1998

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MARINE THERMOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 760)

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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.: #3930]			growth	85 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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Ability of spore formation

no Confidence in %90.718

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

[Ref.: #3930]	Sample type/isolated from	sand from the shore
[Ref.: #3930]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Whale Island
[Ref.: #3930]	Country	New Zealand
[Ref.: #3930]	Country ISO 3 Code	NZL
[Ref.: #3930]	Continent	Australia and Oceania

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Geothermal vent in the tidal zone of Whale Island
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	New Zealand
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	NZL
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Coast
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sandy

What are isolation sources categories?

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #67770]	Thermococcus gorgonarius 16S rRNA gene	Y16226	1335	GenBank ENA	71997 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus gorgonarius gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:JCM 10552	AB055123	1423	GenBank ENA	71997 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus gorgonarius 16S rRNA gene, strain DSM 10395 Type	AJ291809	1310	GenBank ENA	71997 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus gorgonarius strain DSM 10395 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099177	1445	GenBank ENA	71997 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus gorgonarius strain DSM 10395 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099213	183	GenBank ENA	71997 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12	GCA_002214385	complete	GenBank ENA	71997 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12	2758568023	complete	JGI IMG/M	71997 tax ID	*

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GC-content

50.6 mol%

thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12 NCBI: GCA_002214385.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	75	no

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Thermococcus gorgonarius W-12 NCBI: GCA_002214385.1
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	68.171	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	87.626	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	87.235	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.718	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	81.201	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.458	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 10395, ATCC 700654, JCM 10552

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SI-ID 44060

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
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;

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#85880

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID44060.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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