Biology:Methylocystis heyeri

Short description: Species of bacterium

Methylocystis heyeri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Methylocystaceae
Genus:	Methylocystis
Species:	M. heyeri
Binomial name
Methylocystis heyeri Dedysh et al. 2007
Type strain
DSM 16984, H2, VKM B-2426

Methylocystis heyeri is a Gram-negative, aerobic, methanotrophic and non-motile bacterium species from the genus of Methylocystis that has been isolated from Sphagnum peat in the Großer Teufelssee in Germany .

Further reading

• Dedysh, SN; Belova, SE; Bodelier, PL; Smirnova, KV; Khmelenina, VN; Chidthaisong, A; Trotsenko, YA; Liesack, W et al. (March 2007). "Methylocystis heyeri sp. nov., a novel type II methanotrophic bacterium possessing 'signature' fatty acids of type I methanotrophs.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 57 (Pt 3): 472–9. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64623-0. PMID 17329771. 
• De Vos, Paul, ed (2009). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-68489-5. 
• Atlas, Ronald M. (2010). Handbook of microbiological media (4th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Boca Raton, Fla.. ISBN 978-1-4398-0408-7. 
• editors; Huang, Pan Ming; Li, Yuncong; Sumner, Malcolm E. (2011). Handbook of soil sciences resource management and environmental impacts (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4398-0306-6. 

External links

• Type strain of Methylocystis heyeri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Wikidata ☰ Q24916010 entry