Name: Thermococcus waiotapuensis WT1
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 16877

Type strain:

Species: Thermococcus waiotapuensis

Strain Designation: WT1

Culture col. no.: DSM 12768, JCM 10985

Strain history: J. M. González WT1.

NCBI tax ID(s): 90909 (species)

SI-ID 101008

DSM 12768, JCM 10985

Section

Thermococcus waiotapuensis WT1 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from waiotapu hot spring.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea

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 waiotapuensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Thermococcus waiotapuensis González et al. 2001

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

THERMOCOCCUS WAIOTAPUENSE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 934)

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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

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #4810]			growth	82-85 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	80 °C

[Ref.: #4810]	Temperature range	hyperthermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	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.: #4810]	Sample type/isolated from	waiotapu hot spring
[Ref.: #4810]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lake Taupo
[Ref.: #4810]	Country	New Zealand
[Ref.: #4810]	Country ISO 3 Code	NZL
[Ref.: #4810]	Continent	Australia and Oceania

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Freshwater hot spring in the Lake Taupo area of North 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	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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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 waiotapuensis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain:JCM 10985	AB055127	1420	ENA	90909 tax ID
[Ref.: #4810]	Thermococcus waiotapuense 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF134982	1367	ENA	90909 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus waiotapuensis strain DSM 12768 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY099187	1443	ENA	90909 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #20218]	Thermococcus waiotapuensis strain DSM 12768 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer region, complete sequence	AY099223	183	ENA	90909 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #4810]	GC-content	50.4 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	50.4 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 12768, JCM 10985

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SI-ID 101008

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12768

#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;

#85885

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-ID101008.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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