In a previous paper* Fr. Sierp and myself have dealt with some of the numerous hot springs in the Bombay Presidency. The favourable reception which that paper has received relieves me of the necessity of dwelling once more on the importance of the subject. The methods used in the present paper in measuring the radio-activity of the water and the gases are the same as in the former investigation...

This paper reports the draft genome sequence of the proteobacterium Gulbenkiania mobilis strain MB1, a sulfur-metabolizing thermophile isolated from a hot spring located in Pachmarhi, India. This study reports the first draft genome sequence of any species from the genus Gulbenkiania.

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Thermoanerobacter sp. YS13, isolated from a geothermal hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, which consists of 2,713,030 bp with a mean G+C content of 34.05%. A total of 2,779 genes, including 2,707 protein-coding genes, 12 rRNAs, and 59 tRNAs were identified.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40793-015-0075-0.].

Anoxybacillus flavithermus strain AK1 was isolated from Al-Ain Alhara, a thermal hot spring located 50 km southeast of the city of Gazan, Saudi Arabia (16°56'N, 43°15'E). The sequenced and annotated genome is 2,630,664 bp and encodes 2,799 genes.

The genome of the unicellular cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus sp. strain NK55a, isolated from the Nakabusa hot spring, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, comprises a single, circular, 2.5-Mb chromosome. The genome is predicted to contain 2,358 protein-encoding genes, including genes for all typical cyanobacterial photosynthetic and metabolic functions. No genes encoding hydrogenases or nitrogenase we...

The thermophilic islolates of Mangho-pir spring water were of bacillary forms. All were gram positive, sporing rods, varying in sugar reactions; one being non saccharolytic, two monosaccharolytic, one disaccharolytic and nine fermented four or more sugars. All belonged to genus Bacillus of family Bacillaceae. All were found to be thermophilic varieties of ter-ristrial mesophilic species of genu...

A culture-independent approach was utilized in this study to reveal the microbial diversity in Jordanian hot springs represented by Ma'in and Afra hot springs. Water samples from Ma'in and Afra hot springs were collected in June 2015. The in situ temperature of water samples range was 38-59°C and the pH range was 7.4-8.4. The metagenome was extracted and analyzed using the next generation techn...