Thermococcus aegaeus (DSM 12767, JCM 10828, BK17S6-3-b2)

Name: Thermococcus aegaeus (DSM 12767, JCM 10828, BK17S6-3-b2)
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BacDive ID 16876

Type strain

Strain Designation BK17S6-3-b2, P5

Culture col. no. DSM 12767 JCM 10828 BK17S6-3-b2 P5

NCBI tax ID(s) 84597

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- M. Thomm; P5 JCM <-- M. Thomm P5.

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Thermococcus aegaeus BK17S6-3-b2 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from marine hydrothermal vent.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 101004

DSM 12767,JCM 10828

@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 aegaeus

Full scientific name Thermococcus aegaeus corrig. Arab et al. 2000

Synonyms (1)

Thermococcus aegaeicus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4809	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)
4809	positive	growth	88-90
67770	positive	growth	90

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

4809

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4809	marine hydrothermal vent	Aegean See, Palaeochori Bay, Milos	Greece	GRC	Europe
67770	Sediment of Palaeochori Bay	Milos	Greece	GRC	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY099171 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	34
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	0
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	35

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4809	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	NCBI tax ID
20218	Thermococcus aegaeus strain DSM 12767 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099171	1453	84597
20218	Thermococcus aegaeus strain DSM 12767 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099207	185	84597
20218	Thermococcus aegeaicus (isolate P5) 16S rRNA gene, partial	AJ012643	1325	84597

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4809	45
67770	45.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece.	Arab H, Volker H, Thomm M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-50-6-2101	2000

References

#4809	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12767
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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Thermococcus aegaeus (DSM 12767, JCM 10828, BK17S6-3-b2)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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