Methanolacinia

Genus of archaea

Methanolacinia
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanomicrobia
Order:
Methanomicrobiales
Family:
Methanomicrobiaceae
Genus:
Methanolacinia

Zellner et al. 1990
Type species
Methanolacinia paynteri
(Rivard et al. 1984) Zellner et al. 1990
Species
  • M. paynteri
  • M. petrolearia

In taxonomy, Methanolacinia is a genus of the Methanomicrobiaceae.[1] The cells are bar-shaped and irregular 0.6 μm in diameter and 1.5–2.5 μm in length. They do not form endospores. Most are non-motile, but some have a single flagellum. They are strictly anaerobic. They produce methane through the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen and cannot use formate, acetate or methyl compounds as substrates.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanolacinia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ John G. Holt, ed. (1994). Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. p. 722. ISBN 0683006037. Retrieved 2016-08-08.

Further reading

  • Balch WE; Fox GE; Magrum LJ; Woses CR; et al. (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43 (2): 260–296. doi:10.1128/MMBR.43.2.260-296.1979. PMC 281474. PMID 390357.
  • Goker, Markus; Lu, Megan; Fiebig, Anne; Nolan, Matt; Lapidus, Alla; Tice, Hope; Glavina Del Rio, Tijana; Cheng, Jan-Fang; Tapia, Roxanne; Goodwin, Lynne A; Pitluck, Sam; Liolios, Konstantinos; Mavromatis, Konstantinos; Pagani, Ioanna; Ivanova, Natalia; Mikhailova, Natalia; Pati, Amrita; Chen, Amy; Palaniappan, Krishna; Land, Miriam; Mayilraj, Shanmugan; Rohde, Manfred; Detter, John C; Bunk, Boyke; Spring, Stefan; Wirth, Reinhard; Wokye, Tanja; Bristow, James; Eisen, Johanthan A; Markowitz, Victor; Hugenholtz, Philip; Kyrpides, Nikos C; Klenk, Hans-Peter (2014). "Genome sequence of the mud-dwelling archaeon Methanoplanus limicola type strain (DSM 2279(T)), reclassification of Methanoplanus petrolearius as Methanolacinia petrolearia and emended descriptions of the genera Methanoplanus and Methanolacinia". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9 (3): 1076–1088. doi:10.4056/sigs.5138968. PMC 4149034. PMID 25197484.
  • Zellner G; Messner P; Kneifel H; Tindall BJ; et al. (1989). "Methanolacinia gen. nov., incorporating Methanomicrobium paynteri as Methanolacinia paynteri comb. nov". J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 35 (3): 185–202. doi:10.2323/jgam.35.185.
  • Methanolacinia at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Taxon identifiers
Methanolacinia


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