Alicyclobacillus hesperidum is a species of Gram positive, strictly aerobic, bacterium. The bacteria are acidophilic and produced endospores. It was first isolated from solfataric soils in the Furnas, the Azores. The species was first described in 2000, and the name refers to the Hesperides, "mythological figures whom the Greeks believed to have lived at the Western edge of the Earth in a miraculous garden, which [the researchers] interpret as the Azores."[1]
| Alicyclobacillus hesperidum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Alicyclobacillaceae |
| Genus: | Alicyclobacillus |
| Species: | A. hesperidum
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| Binomial name | |
| Alicyclobacillus hesperidum Albuquerque et al. 2000
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The optimum growth temperature for A. hesperidum is 50-53 °C, and can grow in the 35-60 °C range. The optimum pH is 3.5-4.0, and can grow in pH 2.5-5.5.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Albuquerque, L.; Rainey, F. A.; Chung, A. P.; Sunna, A.; Nobre, M. F.; Grote, R.; Antranikian, G.; da Costa, M. S. (1 March 2000). "Alicyclobacillus hesperidum sp. nov. and a related genomic species from solfataric soils of Sao Miguel in the Azores". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50 (2): 451–457. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-2-451. PMID 10758847.
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