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The Family Caldisphaeraceae

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The Prokaryotes

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The family Caldisphaeraceae, represented by a sole genus Caldisphaera, is a member of the order Acidilobales, class Thermoprotei. The genus houses a single validated species C. lagunensis: however, a non-validated species “C. draconis” is also described. Both are extremely thermophilic, but not hyperthermophilic, acidophilic, heterotrophic, anaerobic, coccoid archaea. They dwell in acidic terrestrial hot springs. Phylogenetically, the family is distantly related to members of the neighbor family, Acidilobaceae, whose members are all hyperthermophilic.

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  1. Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, 305-0074, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Takashi Itoh

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Stephen Lory

  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Itoh, T. (2014). The Family Caldisphaeraceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_333

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