Biology:Methylocystis hirsuta

Short description: Species of bacterium

Methylocystis hirsuta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Methylocystaceae
Genus:	Methylocystis
Species:	M. hirsuta
Binomial name
Methylocystis hirsuta Lindner et al. 2007
Type strain
ATCC BAA-1344, CSC1, DSM 18500, Hoefman R-43155, LMG 27832

Methylocystis hirsuta is a Gram-negative, aerobic and methanotroph bacterium species from the genus of Methylocystis which has been isolated from a groundwater aquifer from Mountain View in California in the United States.

Further reading

• Lindner, AS; Pacheco, A; Aldrich, HC; Costello Staniec, A; Uz, I; Hodson, DJ (August 2007). "Methylocystis hirsuta sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from a groundwater aquifer.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 57 (Pt 8): 1891–900. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64541-0. PMID 17684277. 
• Rahnama, Fereshteh; Vasheghani-Farahani, Ebrahim; Yazdian, Fatemeh; Shojaosadati, Seyed Abbas (June 2012). "PHB production by Methylocystis hirsuta from natural gas in a bubble column and a vertical loop bioreactor". Biochemical Engineering Journal 65: 51–56. doi:10.1016/j.bej.2012.03.014. 
• Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. 2009. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-68489-5. 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. 

External links

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

Wikidata ☰ Q24882936 entry