Effusibacillus pohliae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Bacilli |
Order: | Caryophanales |
Family: | Alicyclobacillaceae |
Genus: | Effusibacillus |
Species: | E. pohliae
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Binomial name | |
Effusibacillus pohliae Imperio et al 2008
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Effusibacillus pohliae is a species of Gram positive, aerobic, thermophilic bacterium. The cells are rod-shaped and form spores. It was first isolated from Mount Melbourne, Antarctica. The species is named after the genus of Pohlia nutans, a species of moss that was colonizing the area where the type strain was isolated.[1][2] E. pohliae has also been isolated from a geothermal heat pump in South Korea.[3]
The species was originally grouped with genus Alicyclobacillus. However, further research found that A. pohliae and Alicyclobacillus consociatus belonged in a newly described genus Effusibacillus, and were renamed accordingly.[4]
The optimum growth temperature for E. pohliae is 55 °C, and can grow in the 42-60 °C range. Its optimum pH is 5.0, and grows in pH range 4.5-7.5.[1]