''Pyrococcus woesei'' is an ultra-
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 ...
marine
archaeon. It is
sulfur
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-reducing and grows optimally between 100 and 103 °C. Its cells have a roughly spherical, elongated and constricted appearance, similar to ''
Thermococcus celer''. Frequently, they occur as
diploforms. Cells grown on solid supports have dense tufts of
flagella
A flagellum (; : flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a hair-like appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores ( zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility. Many pr ...
or
pili attached to one pole.
Kanoksilapatham et al. propose ''P. woesei'' as a subspecies of ''
P. furiosus''.
It is named after the discoverer of archaea as a whole -
Carl Woese
Carl Richard Woese ( ; July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal ...
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WORMS entryLPSNType strain of ''Pyrococcus woesei'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Archaea described in 1988
Euryarchaeota
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