Methanobacteria

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

In taxonomy, the Methanobacteria are a class of the Euryarchaeota.[1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanobacteria. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Scientific journals

  • Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52: 7–76. PMID 11837318. 
  • Woese, CR; Kandler O, Wheelis ML (1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87: 4576–4579. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMID 2112744. 

[edit] 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, p. 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, p. 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., p. 169. 

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