Pyrococcus abyssi Erauso et al., 1993
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Euryarchaeota
- phylum
- Euryarchaeota
- class
- Thermococci
- order
- Thermococcales
- family
- Thermococcaceae
- genus
- Pyrococcus
- species
- Pyrococcus abyssi
Abstract
Pyrococcus abyssi is a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the North Fiji Basin at 2000 m. It is anaerobic, sulfur-metabolizing, gram-negative, coccus-shaped and highly motile. Its optimum growth temperature is 96 C. Its type strain is GE5 (CNCM I-1302). Pyrococcus abyssi has been used as a model organism in studies of DNA polymerase. This species can also grow at high cell densities in bioreactors.