Biology:Methanobrevibacter thaueri

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Short description: Species of archaeon

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

Methanobrevibacter thaueri is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Rolf K. Thauer.[1]

Description

Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about 0.5 micrometres in width and 0.6-1.2 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 CWT (=DSM 11995T =OCM 817T). It was first isolated from cow 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 ☰ Q16985504 entry