Biology:Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii

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Short description: Species of archaeon

Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanobacteria
Order: Methanobacteriales
Family: Methanobacteriaceae
Genus: Methanobrevibacter
Species:
M. gottschalkii
Binomial name
Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii
Miller and Lin, 2002

Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Gerhard Gottschalk.[1]

Description

It is a coccobacillus with rounded ends, about 0.7 micrometres in width and 0.9 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell wall is composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is HOT (=DSM 11977T =OCM 813T). It was first isolated from horse and pig faeces.

References

  1. Miller, T. L. (2002). "Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52 (3): 819–822. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02022-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 12054244. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16985500 entry