- Source: Thermodiscus
Thermodiscus is a genus of archaea in the family Desulfurococcaceae. The only species is Thermodiscus maritimus.
References
Further reading
= Scientific journals
=Burggraf S; Huber H; Stetter KO (1997). "Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47 (3): 657–660. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-657. PMID 9226896.
Zillig W; Stetter KO; Prangishvilli D; Schafer W; Wunderl S; Janekovic D; et al. (1982). "Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales". Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C3: 304–317.
Hamana, Koei; Tanaka, Takehiko; Hosoya, Ryuichi; Niitsu, Masaru; Itoh, Takashi (2003). "Cellular polyamines of the acidophilic, thermophilic and thermoacidophilic archaebacteria, Acidilobus, Ferroplasma, Pyrobaculum, Pyrococcus, Staphylothermus, Thermococcus, Thermodiscus and Vulcanisaeta". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 49 (5): 287–293. doi:10.2323/jgam.49.287. PMID 14673752.
= Scientific books
=Stetter, KO (2001). "Genus VII. Thermodiscus gen. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
Stetter, KO (1986). "Diversity of extremely thermophilic archaebacteria". In TD Brock (ed.). Thermophiles: General, Molecular and Applied Microbiology. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-82001-7.