Brockia lithotrophica Perevalova et al., 2013
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Thermoanaerobacterales
- family
- Thermoanaerobacteraceae
- genus
- Brockia
- species
- Brockia lithotrophica
Abstract
Brockia lithotrophica is a thermophilic bacterium from the genus of Brockia which has been isolated from a sediment-water mixture from a hot spring in Uzon Caldera in Russia. This bacterium is rod shaped, spore-forming and obligate anaerobe. It is lithoautotroph and grows on a mineral medium with molecular sulfur, thiosulfate or polysulfide; it has optimal growth temperature in the range of 60 to for pH 6.5, but it is able to grow between 46 C and 78 C and pH ranging from 5.5 to 8.5.