Methanospirillum

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Methanospirillum
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanomicrobia
Order: Methanomicrobiales
Family: Methanospirillaceae
Genus: Methanospirillum
Species
  • M. hungatei
  • M. sp.
  • M. sp. TM20-1
  • uncultured Methanospirillum sp.
Synonyms
  • Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974

In taxonomy, Methanospirillum is a genus of the Methanospirillaceae.[1]

Contents

[edit] References

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

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Scientific journals

  • Ferry JG, Smith PH, Wolfe RS (1974). "Methanospirillum, a new genus of methanogenic bacteria, and characterization of Methanospirillum hungatii sp. nov.". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 24: 465–469. 

[edit] Scientific books

  • Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y (2001). "Family III. Methanospirillaceae fam. 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. ISBN 978-0387987712. 

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