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Klenk, Hans-Peter [DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany]
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Lapidus, Alla L. [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Chertkov, Olga [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)]
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Copeland, A [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Glavina Del Rio, Tijana [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Nolan, Matt [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Lucas, Susan [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Chen, Feng [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Tice, Hope [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Cheng, Jan-Fang [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Han, Cliff [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)]
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Bruce, David [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)]
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Goodwin, Lynne A. [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)]
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Pitluck, Sam [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Pati, Amrita [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Ivanova, N [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Mavromatis, K [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Daum, Chris [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Chen, Amy [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Palaniappan, Krishna [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Chang, Yun-Juan [ORNL]
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Land, Miriam L [ORNL]
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Hauser, Loren John [ORNL]
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Jeffries, Cynthia [Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)]
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Detter, J. Chris [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Rohde, Manfred [HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany]
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Abt, Birte [DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany]
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Pukall, Rudiger [DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany]
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Goker, Markus [DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany]
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Bristow, James [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Markowitz, Victor [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Hugenholtz, Philip [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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Eisen, Jonathan [U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute]
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| Description/Abstract: | Bacillus tusciae Bonjour & Aragno 1994 is a hydrogen-oxidizing, thermoacidophilic spore former that lives as a facultative chemolithoautotroph in solfataras. Although 16S rRNA gene sequencing was well established at the time of the initial description of the organism, 16S se- quence data were not available and the strain was placed into the genus Bacillus based on limited chemotaxonomic information. Despite the now obvious misplacement of strain T2T as a member of the genus Bacillus in 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic trees, the misclassification remained uncorrected for many years, which was likely due to the extremely difficult, analy- sis-hampering cultivation conditions and poor growth rate of the strain. Here we provide a taxonomic re-evaluation of strain T2T (= DSM 2912 = NBRC 15312) and propose its reclassi- fication as the type strain of a new species, Kyrpidia tusciae, and the type species of the new genus Kyrpidia, which is a sister-group of Alicyclobacillus. The family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and Rainey, 2010 is emended. The 3,384,766 bp genome with its 3,323 protein-coding and 78 RNA genes is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project. |
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