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Field guide · species
Brock et al. 1972
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is an aerobic archaeon of hot, acidic terrestrial environments. The genome study of strain DSM639 reports optimal growth around 80 °C and pH 2, linking its name to experimentally defined physiology.
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Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.
Cells have small, irregular rounded outlines. Surface structures participate in interactions with the surrounding environment.
The genome study describes an aerobic thermoacidophile from terrestrial solfataric springs, with optimal growth around 80 °C and pH 2. Temperature and acidity are separate features of this habitat. The organism is adapted to both, whereas many other archaea occupy environments that are neither hot nor strongly acidic.
Energy and carbon use depend on available substrates. The organism is studied under oxygen-containing, hot and acidic culture conditions.
Temperature affects motility and population distribution in experimental work, illustrating an active environmental response.
Chromosome replication and cell division sustain populations. Its relatively stable reference genome contrasts with the more mobile-element-rich genome of some relatives.
Authenticated hot-spring isolates and cultures document occurrence. Not every acidic spring contains the same species or strain.
The archaeon participates in specialized geothermal microbial communities.
Cellular machinery functions under combined heat and acidity; these are properties of this lineage, not all Archaea.
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Saccharolobus solfataricus
Saccharolobus solfataricus is a heat- and acid-adapted archaeon formerly classified as Sulfolobus solfataricus. Genome research on strain P2 and later taxonomic work …
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