Biology:Methanobrevibacter wolinii

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Short description: Species of archaeon

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

Methanobrevibacter wolinii is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Meyer J. Wolin.[1]

Description

Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about t 0.6 micrometres in width and 1.0-1.4 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is SHT (=DSM 11976T =OCM 814T). It was first isolated from sheep 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 ☰ Q16985513 entry