With today's technology, Thermococcus members are relatively easy to grow in labs, and are therefore considered model organisms for studying the physiological and molecular pathways of extremophiles.
Coa tecnoloxía actual, os membros de Thermococcus son relativamente fáciles de cultivar no laboratorio, polo que se consideran organismos modelo para o estudo da fisioloxía e vías moleculares dos extremófilos.