Methanimicrococcus

Methanimicrococcus
Methanimicrococcus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanomicrobia
Order: Methanosarcinales
Family: Methanosarcinaceae
Genus: Methanimicrococcus
Binomial name
Methanimicrococcus
corrig. Sprenger et al. 2000
Species
  • M. blatticola

In taxonomy, Methanimicrococcus is a genus of the Methanosarcinaceae.[1]

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References

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanimicrococcus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19. 

Further reading

Scientific journals

  • List, Editor IJSEM (2001). "Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 6, of the IJSEM". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51 (Pt 2): 267–268. PMID 11321069. 
  • Sprenger WW, van Belzen MC, Rosenberg J, Hackstein JH, Keltjens JT (2000). "Methanomicrococcus blatticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanol- and methylamine-reducing methanogen from the hindgut of the cockroach Periplaneta americana". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50: 1989–1999. PMID 11155972. 
  • Springer E, Sachs MS, Woese CR, Boone DR (1995). "Partial gene sequences for the A subunit of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (mcrI) as a phylogenetic tool for the family Methanosarcinaceae". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 45 (3): 554–559. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-3-554. PMID 8590683. 
  • Sowers KR, Johnson JL, Ferry JG (1984). "Phylogenic relationships among the methylotrophic methane-producing bacteria and emendation of the family Methanosarcinaceae". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34: 444–450. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-4-444. 
  • Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woses CR, Wolfe RS (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43 (2): 260–296. PMC 281474. PMID 390357. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=281474. 

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