Methanococcoides

Methanococcoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanosarcinales
Family:	Methanosarcinaceae
Genus:	Methanococcoides
Binomial name
*Methanococcoides* Sowers and Ferry 1985
Species
M. alaskense M. burtonii M. methylutens

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

Methanococcoides species are methanogens entirely dependent on methylated compounds for nutrition.^[2]

Contents

1 References
2 Further reading
3 External links

References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanococcoides. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ D.R. Boone, et al. (2001). "Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology". ed. Order III: methanosarcinales (2nd ed., vol. 1 ed.). New York: Springer.

Further reading

Scientific journals

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.

Sowers KR, Ferry JG (1983). "Isolation and characterization of a methylotrophic marine methanogen, Methanococcoides methylutens gen. nov., sp. nov". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 45: 684–690. PMID 16346215.

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.

Scientific books

Scientific databases

External links