Methanohalobium

Methanohalobium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanosarcinales
Family:	Methanosarcinaceae
Genus:	Methanohalobium
Binomial name
*Methanohalobium* Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988
Species
M. evestigatum

In taxonomy, Methanohalobium is a genus of the Methanosarcinaceae.^[1] Its genome has been sequenced.^[2]

References

↑ See the NCBI webpage on Methanohalobium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
↑ http://genome.jgi-psf.org/metev/metev.info.html

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.

Zhilina, T. N.; G. A. Zavarzin (1987). "[Methanohalobium evestigatus, n. gen., n. sp. The extremely halophilic methanogenic Archaebacterium]". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 293: 464–468.

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 et al. (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43 (2): 260–296. PMC 281474. PMID 390357.

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