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Phylum Al. Crenarchaeota phy. nov.
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. Mo...
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Phylogeny and Biological Features of Thermophiles
Thermophilic prokaryotes constitute a quite large group among the currently known prokaryotic species. At present, more than 220 genera and 580 species of the thermophiles have been isolated from various therm...