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by Jonathan B Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Crenarchaeon sequence

The genome sequence of Pyrobaculum aerophilum gives clues about its unusual biology and its sulfur intolerance.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020117-01

17 January 2002

Pyrobaculum aerophilum is a hyperthermophilic crenachaeon that cannot tolerate the presence of elemental sulfur. In the January 22 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon report the complete genome sequence of the P. aerophilum IM2 strain that was isolated from a boiling marine water hole in Maronti Beach, Italy (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002, 99:984-989).


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