Thermococcus stetteri is an extremely thermophilic, marine, sulfur-metabolizing archaebacterium. It is anaerobic, its cells being irregular cocci 1 to 2 μm in diameter. Of the strains first isolated, two were motile due to a tuft of flagella, while the other two strains were nonmotile.[1] Its type strain is K-3 (DSM 5262). It can grow on starch, pectin, and peptides, but not amino acids.[2]

Thermococcus stetteri
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T. stetteri
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Thermococcus stetteri
Miroshnichenko 1990

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  1. ^ Miroshnichenko, M.L.; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A.; Neuner, A.; Kostrikina, N.A.; Chernych, N.A.; Alekseev, V.A. (1989). "Thermococcus stetteri sp. nov., a New Extremely Thermophilic Marine Sulfur-Metabolizing Archaebacterium". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 12 (3): 257–262. doi:10.1016/S0723-2020(89)80071-2. ISSN 0723-2020.
  2. ^ Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (10 October 2006). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 73. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 5 October 2016.

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