| T number | T00022 |
| Org_code | tma |
| Name | Thermotoga maritima MSB8 |
| Category | Reference genome; Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 243274 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Thermotogota; Thermotogae; Thermotogales; Thermotogaceae; Thermotoga |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000008545.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 111 |
| Comment | Non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium.
Grows optimally temperature of 80 deg C.
Metabolizes many simple and complex carbohydrates including glucose, sucrose, starch, cellulose and xylan.
Isolated from geothermal heated marine sediment at Porto di Levante, Vulcano, Italy.
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| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: AE000512 |
| Length | 1860725 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 1860725
Number of protein genes: 1846
Number of RNA genes: 49
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| Created | 1999 |
| Reference | PMID: 10360571 |
| Authors | Nelson KE, Clayton RA, Gill SR, Gwinn ML, Dodson RJ, Haft DH, Hickey EK, Peterson JD, Nelson WC, Ketchum KA, et al. |
| Title | Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima. |
| Journal | Nature 399:323-9 (1999)
DOI: 10.1038/20601 |
Thermotoga maritima MSB8