Methanopyrus
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| Methanopyrus | |
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| Methanopyrus kandleri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Methanopyri |
| Order: | Methanopyrales |
| Family: | Methanopyraceae |
| Genus: | Methanopyrus |
| Binomial name | |
| Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992 | |
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In taxonomy, Methanopyrus is a genus of the Methanopyraceae.[1]
Methanopyrus is a genus of methanogen, with a single described species, M. kandleri. It is a hyperthermophile, discovered on the wall of a black smoker from the Gulf of California at a depth of 2000 m, at temperatures of 84–110 °C. Strain 116 was discovered in black smoker fluid of the Kairei hydrothermal field; it can survive and reproduce at 122 °C.[2] It lives in a hydrogen-carbon dioxide rich environment, and like other methanogens reduces the latter to methane. It is placed among the Euryarchaeota, in its own class.
References
- ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Methanopyrus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ↑ Takai K, Nakamura K, Toki T, Tsunogai U, Miyazaki M, Miyazaki J, Hirayama H, Nakagawa S, Nunoura T, Horikoshi K (2008). "Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 (31): 10949–54. doi:10.1073/pnas.0712334105. PMC 2490668. PMID 18664583.
Further reading
Scientific journals
- Kurr M, Huber R, Konig H, Jannasch HW, Fricke H, Trincone A, Kristjansson JK, Stetter KO (1991). "Methanopyrus kandleri, gen. and sp. nov. represents a novel group of hyperthermophilic methanogens, growing at 110°C". Arch. Microbiol. 156 (4): 239–247. doi:10.1007/BF00262992.
Scientific books
- Huber R, Stetter KO (2001). "Family I. Methanopyralceae 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. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
Scientific databases
- PubMed references for Methanopyrus
- PubMed Central references for Methanopyrus
- Google Scholar references for Methanopyrus
External links
- NCBI taxonomy page for Methanopyrus
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Methanopyrus
- Search Species2000 page for Methanopyrus
- MicrobeWiki page for Methanopyrus
- LSPN page for Methanopyrus
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