''Caldilinea aerophila'' is a species of filamentous
thermophilic
A thermophile is a type of extremophile that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though some of them are bacteria and fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earliest bact ...
bacteria, and the type species of its genus. It is
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...
, non-
spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual reproduction, sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for biological dispersal, dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Spores fo ...
-forming, with type strain STL-6-O1
T (=JCM 11388
T =DSM 14525
T).
See also
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Bioaugmentation
Biological augmentation is the addition of archaea or bacterial cultures required to speed up the rate of degradation of a contaminant. Organisms that originate from contaminated areas may already be able to break down waste, but perhaps ineffici ...
References
Further reading
*Costello, Elizabeth Kate. Molecular Phylogenetic Characterization of High Altitude Soil Microbial Communities and Novel, Uncultivated Bacterial Lineages. ProQuest, 2007.
*Dilek, Yıldırım. Links Between Geological Processes, Microbial Activities & Evolution of Life: Microbes and Geology. Eds. Yildirim Dilek, H. Furnes, and Karlis Muehlenbachs. Vol. 4. Springer, 2008.
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Caldilinea aerophila'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Gram-negative bacteria
Thermophiles
Chloroflexota
Bacteria described in 2003
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