Alicyclobacillus hesperidum
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."

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.
Q857288
Gram positive
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Q10876
bacterium
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Q105880
solfataric
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Q998510
Furnas
LOC
Q25263
the Azores
LOC
Q165938
Hesperides
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Q40936
pH
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Q25834844
Alicyclobacillus hesperidum
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2000-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2000
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+50^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
50
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-53^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-53
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+35^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
35
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-60^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-60
NUMBER
+3.5^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
3.5
NUMBER
-4.0^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-4.0
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+2.5^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2.5
NUMBER
-5.5^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-5.5
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Gram staining
subclass of