Biology:Methanosalsum

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Short description: Genus of archaea

Methanosalsum
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Methanosalsum

Boone and Baker 2002
Type species
Methanosalsum zhilinae
(Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone & Baker 2002
Species
  • M. natronophilum
  • M. zhilinae

In taxonomy, Methanosalsum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanosarcinaceae.[1] This genus contains two species.

Methanosalsum zhilinae was isolated from the saline and alkaline sediments of Wadi Natrun in Egypt and from Lake Magadi. It is moderately halophilic.[2][3]

Methanosalsum natronophilum (natronophilum means soda-loving) was isolated from hypersaline soda lakes.[4]


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References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanosalsum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/. 
  2. Extremophiles Handbook. Springer Science and Business Media. 2010-12-08. pp. 260. ISBN 978-4431538974. https://books.google.com/books?id=t_EgsgIY-_AC&q=%22genus+methanosalsum%22&pg=PA260. 
  3. The Prokaryotes. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. 2006-10-10. pp. 246. ISBN 0387254935. https://books.google.com/books?id=swciHNNWZDEC&q=%22Methanobrevibacter+woesei%22+%22coccobacillus%22&pg=PA240. Retrieved 2016-08-25. 
  4. Sorokin, Dimitry Y.; Abbas, Ben; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Merkel, Alexander Y.; Sukhacheva, Marina V.; Rijpstra, W. Irene C.; van Loosdrecht, Mark C. M. (2015). "Methanosalsum natronophilum sp. nov., and Methanocalculus alkaliphilus sp. nov., haloalkaliphilic methanogens from hypersaline soda lakes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 65 (10): 3739–3745. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000488. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 26228570. 

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Wikidata ☰ Q4044139 entry