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Pressure X-Philes: Bacteria

Bacterial Barophiles & Barotolerant Bacteria

Introduction

Also known as piezophiles, this group includes bacterial with an optimal growth pressure of 10 Mpa (~100 bar) or higher (≥98.6 atmospheres).

List of Bacterial Barophiles & Barotolerant Bacteria by Barotolerance

Here organisms are listed first by the upper end of their pressure range, then by OGMpa, then by the lower end of their pressure range, and for any organisms for which these properties are unknown, they will be listed in alphabetical order.

**Described Species**
Genus & Species	high Mpa	OGMpa	High Mpa	Source
Genus species	?	?	?	?

Phylogenic List of Bacterial Barophiles & Barotolerant Bacteria

Alphabetical List of Bacterial Barophiles & Barotolerant Bacteria

**Described Species**
Genus & Species	High Temp	OGT	Low Temp	Source
Genus species	?	?	?	?

Ding &al., 2011
Dopson &al., 2003
Baker &al., 2010
Plumb &al., 2007
Whitman &al., 1999

"Nitrosotalea is an abundant, globally distributed genus of AOA found in acidic soils (Gubry-Rangin et al., 2011). Thirty per cent of the world's soils are considered acidic (pH < 5.5; von Uexk�ll & Mutert, 1995), and ammonia oxidation in low pH soils is dominated by AOA, rather than AOB (Gubry-Rangin et al., 2010; Lehtovirta-Morley et al., 2011)."

Craig W. Herbold, Laura E. Lehtovirta-Morley, Man-Young Jung, Nico Jehmlich, Bela Hausmann, Ping Han, Alexander Loy, Michael Pester, Luis A. Sayavedra-Soto, Sung-Keun Rhee, James I. Prosser, Graeme W. Nicol, Michael Wagner and Cecile Gubry-Rangin. Ammonia-oxidising archaea living at low pH: Insights from comparative genomics. Environmental Microbiology (2017) 19(12), 4939�4952