Methanobacteria

Methanobacteria
Methanobacteria
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanobacteria
Order
Synonyms
  • Archaeobacteria
  • Archaeobacteria Murray 1988
  • Methanobacteria Boone 2002

In taxonomy, the Methanobacteria are a class of the Euryarchaeota.[1] Several of the classes of the Euryarchaeota are methanogens and the Methanobacteria are one of these classes.

Contents

References

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanobacteria. 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

Scientific books

  • Boone, DR (2001). "Class I. Methanobacteria class. nov.". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712. 
  • Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov.". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712. 
  • Murray, RGE (1983). "The higher taxa, or, a place for everything...". In NR Krieg and JG Holt, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 1 (1st ed.). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co.. pp. 169. 

Scientific databases

External links

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