Cellulose Digesting Extremophile From Gerlach,NV.

You could try contacting the lab or find and read the publication where the name is given.

Or discuss what you are looking for with the supplier you intended to order from. I'm sure you will find someone familiar with the research on Gerlach extremophiles.

http://www.ncimb.com/

http://www.atcc.org/CulturesandProducts/Microbiology/BacteriaandPhages/tabid/176/Default.aspx

Or just go to the hot springs in Gerlach, NV. yourself, and use a sample thief to collect your own specimens, and confirm the research...duh. I would be majorly surprised if the same (fungal) species is not found in a lot more places in the form of spores.

For instance, why not simply reproduce the exact conditions in the hot springs without innoculating, but allow plenty of contact with ambient air, and see what develops?

Thank you ( "....duh") .

I already contacted them and it is not under lock and key as I had been led to believe based on the article about their park I had initially read. There are only a couple of pools that are fenced in actually.

Sorry about the "duh". What do you think about mimicing the physical-chemical conditions and let nature get involved?

Well, I am no microbiologist but I am wondering if you would automatically get the same microbes just because you recreated the same temperature. I dont think it has to be saline since I dont think that spring is saline.

That's a good question. I suppose you could add a little cellulose every so often over time if you kept a boiling pot at the same temperature that that microbe lived at over the period of a month and see what happened . Or then just take a road trip to the Nevada outback and say " I'm microbe shopping" and see a couple of ghost towns ( of course looking for microbes all the while).

That's a good question.

Agree the faster route is to simply go pick up the specimen(s), however, another whole extremely valuable result awaits you. If thermophilic fungal spores (or bacterial spores) are simply drifting in the atmosphere, then they will always arrive where conditions are right. Another question: have you ever seen a hot springs that was sterile?

One of our generation plants used to have really hot condensate return averaging about 145 F (62-63 C). There would nearly always be "streamers" of some "bacteria" of fungi that preferred to grow in the hot water (this was fairly low in oxygen, but not completely anaerobic).

Yes that would be good instead of having to order the exact type of microbe from a lab. Much simpler.