Thermus caliditerrae (DSM 25901, CCTCC 2012061, YIM 77925)

Name: Thermus caliditerrae (DSM 25901, CCTCC 2012061, YIM 77925)
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BacDive ID 24641

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 25901 CCTCC 2012061 YIM 77925

NCBI tax ID(s) 1330700

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- S.-K. Tang, Yunnan Univ., Yunnan Inst. Microbiol. (YIM), Kunming, China <- T.-T. Yu

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Thermus caliditerrae DSM 25901 is a bacterium that was isolated from geothermally heated sediment with some water.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402941

DSM 25901

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Deinococcota

Class Deinococci

Order Thermales

Family Thermaceae

Genus Thermus

Species Thermus caliditerrae

Full scientific name Thermus caliditerrae Ming et al. 2014

Morphology

Colony morphology

20870

Incubation period1-2 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20870	THERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1722)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: T5 MEDIUM modified (DSMZ Medium 1722) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l Yeast extract 2.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Glucose 1.0 g/l Tryptone 0.5 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
20870	positive	growth	65

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	99.9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
20870	geothermally heated sediment with some water	Yunnan province, Tengchong county, Hydrothermal Explosion area (Shuirebaozhaqu, 24.95014° N 98.43743° E)	China	CHN	Asia	24.9501	98.4374 24.9501/98.4374

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence KC852874 (>99% sequence identity) for Thermus caliditerrae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	30
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	4
Plant Samples
Total Samples	34

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20870	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM2146252v1 assembly for Thermus caliditerrae YIM 77925	contig	GCA_021462525	1330700.6	8118423448	1330700	69.77

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20870	Thermus caliditerrae strain YIM 77925 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC852874	1545		1330700

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
20870	65.6	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: Thermus caliditerrae YIM 77925
NCBI: GCA_021462525

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	55.70	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	67.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	78.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	99.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Thermus caliditerrae YIM 77925
NCBI: GCA_021462525.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	76.40	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.48	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	74.25	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	72.12	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	77.82	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	78.76	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	High-Quality Draft Genomes from Thermus caliditerrae YIM 77777 and T. tengchongensis YIM 77401, Isolates from Tengchong, China.	Mefferd CC, Zhou EM, Yu TT, Ming H, Murugapiran SK, Huntemann M, Clum A, Pillay M, Palaniappan K, Varghese N, Mikhailova N, Stamatis D, Reddy TB, Ngan CY, Daum C, Duffy K, Shapiro N, Markowitz V, Ivanova N, Kyrpides N, Williams AJ, Woyke T, Li WJ, Hedlund BP.	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomea.00312-16	2016
Phylogeny	Thermus thermamylovorans sp. nov., isolated from a hot spring.	Ming H, Zhao ZL, Ji WL, Ding CL, Cheng LJ, Niu MM, Li M, Yi BF, Xia TT, Nie GX	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003965	2020
Phylogeny	Thermus caldilimi sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a geothermal area.	Li MM, Xian WD, Zhang XT, Yin YR, Zhou EM, Ding YP, Liu L, Fang BZ, Li WJ	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-019-01309-0	2019
Phylogeny	Thermus amyloliquefaciens sp. nov., isolated from a hot spring sediment sample.	Yu TT, Ming H, Yao JC, Zhou EM, Park DJ, Hozzein WN, Kim CJ, Wadaan MAM, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.000289	2015
Phylogeny	Thermus caliditerrae sp. nov., a novel thermophilic species isolated from a geothermal area.	Ming H, Yin YR, Li S, Nie GX, Yu TT, Zhou EM, Liu L, Dong L, Li WJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.056838-0	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 )
#20870	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25901
#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 .
#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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Thermus caliditerrae (DSM 25901, CCTCC 2012061, YIM 77925)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony 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

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_021462525

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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