Methanothermococcus

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Methanothermococcus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanococci
Order: Methanococcales
Family: Methanococcaceae
Genus: Methanothermococcus
Species
  • M. okinawensis
  • M. sp. E1855-M
  • M. sp. enrichment clone M11
  • M. sp. enrichment clone M37
  • M. sp. Ep55
  • M. sp. Ep70
  • M. sp. Mc-1-55
  • M. sp. Mc37
  • M. sp. Mc55
  • M. sp. Mc70
  • M. sp. Pal55-Mc
  • M. thermolithotrophicus
  • uncultured Methanothermococcus sp.
Synonyms
  • Methanothermococcus Whitman 2002

In taxonomy, Methanothermococcus is a genus of the Methanococcaceae.[1]

Contents

[edit] References

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

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Scientific journals

  • KogaY, Morii H, Akagawa-Matsushita M, Ohga I (1998). "Correlation of polar lipid composition with 16S rRNA phylogeny in methanogens. Further analysis of lipid component part". Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 62: 230–236. doi:10.1271/bbb.62.230. 
  • Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woses CR, Wolfe RS (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43: 260–296. PMID 390357. 

[edit] Scientific books

  • Whitman, WB (2001). "Genus II. Methanothermococcus gen. 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. 

[edit] Scientific databases

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