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The phylum consists of a single class, the Thermoprotei, which is well supported by 16S rDNA sequence data. It is subdivided into three orders: the Thermoproteales, the Desulfurococcales, and the Sulfolobales. Morphologically diverse, including rods, cocci, filamentous forms, and disk-shaped cells. Stain Gram-negative. Motility observed in some genera. Obligately thermophilic, with growth occurring at temperatures ranging from 70 to 113°C. Acidophilic. Aerobic, facultatively anaerobic, or strictly anaerobic-chemolithoautotrophs or chemoheterotrophs. Most metabolize S0. Chemoheterotrophs, may grow by sulfur respiration. RNA polymerase of the BAC type.
Cren.arch.ae.o’ta. M.L. fern. pl. n. Crenarchaeota from the Kingdom Crenarchaeota (Woese, Kandler and Wheelis 1990, 4579).
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Garrity, G.M. et al. (2001). Phylum Al. Crenarchaeota phy. nov.. In: Boone, D.R., Castenholz, R.W., Garrity, G.M. (eds) Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21609-6_16
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