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Thermoproteales

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The order Thermoproteales (Zillig et al., 1981) is one of the three orders of the archaeal phylum Crenarchaeota (Woese et al., 1990). This branch is further represented by the orders Sulfolobales (Stetter, 1989) and Desulfurococcales (Huber and Stetter, 2001b). Members of the Thermoproteales are rod-shaped extreme thermophiles or hyperthermophiles, which grow either as anaerobes or facultative anaerobes. Under autotrophic conditions, they gain energy by oxidation of hydrogen, using sulfur, thiosulfate, sulfite, oxygen, selenate, and arsenate as electron acceptors. Alternatively, they grow by several types of respiration, using sulfur, oxygen, nitrate, nitrite, arsenate, ferric iron, selenate, selenite, L-cystine, and oxidized glutathione as electron acceptors, or by fermentation of organic substrates. Following the classification listed in the new edition of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (Huber and Stetter, 2001a), the order Thermoproteales comprises two...

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

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  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

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Huber, H., Huber, R., Stetter, K.O. (2006). Thermoproteales. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30743-5_2

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