Calidithermus terrae (DSM 26712, CCTCC AB 2012942, YIM 77755)

Name: Calidithermus terrae (DSM 26712, CCTCC AB 2012942, YIM 77755)
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BacDive ID 24638

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 26712 CCTCC AB 2012942 YIM 77755

NCBI tax ID(s) 1408545

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- S.-K. Tang, YIM; YIM 77755 <- T.-T. Yu

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Calidithermus terrae DSM 26712 is a bacterium that was isolated from geothermally heated soil.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 403253

DSM 26712

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:24:01

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Calidithermus

Species Calidithermus terrae

Full scientific name Calidithermus terrae (Yu et al. 2014) Raposo et al. 2019

Synonyms (1)

Meiothermus terrae

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20645	R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casamino acids 0.5 g/l Starch 0.5 g/l Glucose 0.5 g/l Proteose peptone 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20645	positive	growth	50

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
20645	geothermally heated soil	Yunnan province, Tengchong, Rehai National Park (24.56993° N 98.26291° E)	China	CHN	Asia	24.5699	98.2629 24.5699/98.2629

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KF603888 (>99% sequence identity) for Calidithermus terrae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	16
Soil Samples	6
Animal Samples	30
Plant Samples
Total Samples	52

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20645	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID
66792	ASM357434v1 assembly for Calidithermus terrae DSM 26712	contig	GCA_003574345	1408545.3	8063177979	1408545

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20645	Calidithermus terrae strain YIM 77755 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KF603888	1480		1408545
124043	Bacillus subtilis strain VP-80 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	KF499019	1509		1408545

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
20645	68.9	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Calidithermus terrae DSM 26712
NCBI: GCA_003574345

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	79.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	58.20	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	81.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	79.60	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Meiothermus terrae strain DSM 26712
PATRIC: 1408545.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	71.11	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.00	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	68.57	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	80.67	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	57.70	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	71.16	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Mining and Characterization of Amylosucrase from Calidithermus terrae for Synthesis of alpha-Arbutin Using Sucrose.	Li A, He Y, Chen W, Tao H, Wu H, Li S.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms252413359	2024
Phylogeny	Transfer of Meiothermus chliarophilus (Tenreiro et al.1995) Nobre et al. 1996, Meiothermus roseus Ming et al. 2016, Meiothermus terrae Yu et al. 2014 and Meiothermus timidus Pires et al. 2005, to Calidithermus gen. nov., as Calidithermus chliarophilus comb. nov., Calidithermus roseus comb. nov., Calidithermus terrae comb. nov. and Calidithermus timidus comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genus Meiothermus.	Raposo P, Viver T, Albuquerque L, Froufe H, Barroso C, Egas C, Rossello-Mora R, da Costa MS.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003270	2019
Phylogeny	Meiothermus terrae sp. nov., isolated from a geothermally heated soil sample.	Yu TT, Yin YR, Zhang YG, Yao JC, Klenk HP, Wang HF, Ming H, Zhou EM, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.055392-0	2013

References

#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 )
#20645	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26712
#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) .
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Calidithermus terrae (DSM 26712, CCTCC AB 2012942, YIM 77755)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_003574345

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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