These factors allow a much easier growth under laboratory conditions than anaerobic organisms and have led to Sulfolobus becoming a model organism for the study of hyperthermophiles and a large group of diverse viruses that replicate within them.
Estes factores permiten cultivalas máis facilmente no laboratorio ca os organismos anaerobios, o que fixo de Sulfolobus un organismo modelo para o estudo dos hipertermófilos e dos virus que se replican dentro deles.