Thermofilum
Sign in to saveThermofilum is a genus of archaea in the family Thermofilaceae.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomArchaea
- PhylumThermoproteota
- ClassThermoproteia
- OrderThermofilales
- FamilyThermofilaceae
Habitatmarine
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Thermofilaceae
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- taxon name
- Thermofilum
- taxon rank
- genus
- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/thermofilum
- nomenclatural type of
- Thermofilaceae
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Thermofilum is a genus of archaea in the family Thermofilaceae.
Thermofilum pendens is a hyperthermic member of the archael kingdom Crenarchaeota, and represents a deep branch in the order Thermoproteales. T. pendens lacks the genes for purine nucleotide biosynthesis and thus relies on environmental sources to meet its purine requirements.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thermofilum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.