Picrophilus oshimae

Picrophilus oshimae
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P. oshimae
Binomial name
Picrophilus oshimae
Schleper et al. 1996

Picrophilus oshimae is a species of Archaea described in 1996.[1] Picrophilus oshimae was found in a fumarole in Hokkaido, Japan. The hot spring the fumarole was located in had a pH of 2.2.[2]

  1. ^ Schleper; Pühler; Klenk & Zillig (July 1996). "Picrophilus oshimae and Picrophilus tomdus fam. nov., gen. nov., sp. nov., Two Species of Hyperacidophilic, Thermophilic, Heterotrophic, Aerobic Archae". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (3): 814–816. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-3-814. ISSN 1466-5034. OCLC 807119723.
  2. ^ Siddiqui; Thomas, eds. (2008). "Thermoacidophiles and their Protein Adaptation to Low pH and High Temperature". Protein Adaptation in Extremophiles. Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781604560190. Retrieved 31 October 2013.