Pyrococcus Furiosus

The Rushing Fireball

If you like an exuberant lady who can handle the heat, then I am the anaerobic, lophotrichous hyperthermophile for you. Let's see if you can stay up to speed and swim with me near my favorite thermal vents in 100 degrees Celcius water. If you aren't as fiery as me, don't bother shooting your shot - the cool guy personality is a real hindrance where I come from, and don't even get me started if you are a mouth breather. Oxygen is NOT my thing. If you are a hyperthermophile like me but you need sulfur, don't expect me to settle in your layer because I can survive without it. I have a lot of requirements, but I'm not high maintenance, I just know what I want. On a positive note, you get extra points if you are a foodie. I like fine dining and I'm all about variety. I want peptides AND carbohydrates for my carbon. 

If you like me, you'll like my group even better. We like to get tangled with our many flagella into the most attractive biofilm on the planet. You better come prepared to pay a high price if you want in on the party, though. Some of our enzymes are tungsten dependant which isn't easy to come by in biological systems.  

Chloracidobacterium thermophilium Dating Profile

 Chloracidobacterium thermophilium

                                    

I may be an acidobacterium, but I don’t have an acid tongue. I’m pretty easy going and neutral on most things. I like hot summer days and swimming in Yellowstone hot springs (44 - 58⁰C is just right 😊). I’m not much of a handyman; I couldn’t fix your CO₂. But I do have a lot of energy from soaking up the sun. I’m fairly independent and like my space, but don’t want anyone to suck the oxygen out of the room. I consider myself cultured, though my friends don’t tend to be. I may need some of your branched amino acids and vitamin B12 is my favorite present at Christmas. My greatest flaw is my job mining sulfur can get a little smelly. I’m new to this website (discovered in 2007), so come say hi!

Desulforudis audaxviator 

 

Chemolithotroph Bacterium. 

    Long walks on the beach aren't really my thing, I'm more of a 'soak in radioactive 60 °C groundwater' kind of guy. I'm not a basement dweller, way below actually, 2.8 km down a gold mine suits me fine. I'm completely self reliant because I can code for all proteins necessary for life, so you might be able to find me on a rocky planet like Mars. 

    Social skills aren't my strong suit, I'm the only organism in my ecosystem. It relies on radioactivity instead of light so its not for most. I have transferred genes from my archaea friends, they have been found at similar depths. I'm motile, Gram-positive, and an obligate anaerobe. I'm not a picky eater, all I need is radioactive material, water, sulfate, ammonia and CO2 so I can reduce sulfate.

(find out more about me here: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Desulforudis_audaxviator#References)