Methanosarcinaceae

Methanosarcinaceae

Methanosarcina barkeri fusaro
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanosarcinales
Family:	Methanosarcinaceae
Binomial name
Methanosarcinaceae Balch and Wolfe 1981
Genera
Halomethanococcus Methanimicrococcus Methanococcoides Methanohalobium Methanohalophilus Methanolobus Methanomethylovorans Methanosalsum Methanosarcina

In taxonomy, the Methanosarcinaceae are a family of the Methanosarcinales.^[1]

Contents

1 References
2 Further reading
3 External links

References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanosarcinaceae. 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

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 (Pt 1): 7–76. PMID 11837318.

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.

Cavalier-Smith, T (1986). "The kingdoms of organisms". Nature 324 (6096): 416–417. doi:10.1038/324416a0. PMID 2431320.

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 (4): 444–450. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-4-444.

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

Boone DR, Whitman WB, Koga Y (2001). "Order III. Methanosarcinales ord. 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. p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.

Grant WD, Kamekura M, McGenity TJ, Ventosa A (2001). "Class III. Halobacteria 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. p. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712.

Scientific databases

External links