Methanobrevibacter wolinii
| Methanobrevibacter wolinii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Methanobacteriati |
| Phylum: | Methanobacteriota |
| Class: | Methanobacteria |
| Order: | Methanobacteriales |
| Family: | Methanobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Methanobrevibacter |
| Species: | M. wolinii
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| Binomial name | |
| Methanobrevibacter wolinii Miller and Lin, 2002
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Methanobrevibacter wolinii is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Meyer J. Wolin.[1]
Description
Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about t 0.6 micrometres in width and 1.0-1.4 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 SHT (=DSM 11976T =OCM 814T). It was first isolated from sheep faeces.
References
- ^ 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
- Hackstein, Johannes H. P., ed. (2010). (Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-13615-3. OCLC 669832766.
- Schaechter, Moselio (2009). Encyclopedia of Microbiology. San Diego: Academic Press [Imprint]. ISBN 978-0-12-373944-5.
- Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
- Bignell, David Edward; Roisin, Yves; Lo, Nathan, eds. (2011). Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-90-481-3977-4. OCLC 682911246.