Biology:Methylosphaera hansonii
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Short description: Species of bacterium
| Methylosphaera hansonii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Methylococcales |
| Family: | Methylococcaceae |
| Genus: | Methylosphaera |
| Species: | M. hansonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Methylosphaera hansonii J.P.Bowman et al. 1997
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Methylosphaera hansonii, also called Antarctic budding methanotroph AM6,[1] is a species of psychrophilic, group I methanotrophs, named after microbiologist Richard S. Hanson.[2] It is non-motile, coccoidal in morphology, does not form resting cells, reproduces by constriction, and requires seawater for growth. Its type strain is ACAM 549.
The cells are round and 1.5–2.0 μm in diameter. They are Gram-negative, non-motile, and strictly aerobic. They use methane and methanol as substrates to produce energy, and they can fix atmospheric nitrogen.[3]
Nomenclature
The name has French and Greek roots. Methyl for its methyl group and sphaera for sphere. Overall the name means "methyl sphere."[3]
References
- ↑ "Methylosphaera hansonii" (in English). Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=51353. "Other names: synonym: Antarctic budding methanotroph AM6"
- ↑ Bowman, John P.; McCammon, S. A.; Skerrat, J. H. (1997). "Methylosphaera hansonii gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrophilic, group I methanotroph from Antarctic marine-salinity, meromictic lakes". Microbiology 143 (4): 1451–1459. doi:10.1099/00221287-143-4-1451. ISSN 1350-0872. PMID 9141708.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Springer Science & Business Media. 2007-12-14. pp. 242. ISBN 978-0387280226. https://books.google.com/books?id=3znhBwAAQBAJ&q=%22genus+methanothermococcus%22&pg=PA242. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
Further reading
- Schouten, S (2000). "Sterols in a psychrophilic methanotroph, Methylosphaera hansonii". FEMS Microbiology Letters 186 (2): 193–195. doi:10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00142-7. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 10802170.
- Trotsenko, Yuri A.; Khmelenina, Valentina N. (June 1, 2005). "Aerobic methanotrophic bacteria of cold ecosystems". FEMS Microbiology Ecology 53 (1): 15–26. doi:10.1016/j.femsec.2005.02.010. PMID 16329925.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q16985649 entry
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