Methanogenium frigidum
| Methanogenium frigidum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Methanomicrobia |
| Order: | Methanomicrobiales |
| Family: | Methanomicrobiaceae |
| Genus: | Methanogenium |
| Species: | M. frigidum |
| Binomial name | |
| Methanogenium frigidum Franzmann et al., 1997 | |
Methanogenium frigidum is a psychrophilic, H2-using methanogen from Ace Lake, Antarctica.[1]
Description
Cells are psychrophilic, irregular, slightly halophilic and non-motile coccoids (diameter 1.2 to 2.5 μm).
References
- ↑ Franzmann, P. D.; Liu, Y.; Balkwill, D. L.; Aldrich, H. C.; Conway De Macario, E.; Boone, D. R. (1997). "Methanogenium frigidum sp. nov., a Psychrophilic, H2-Using Methanogen from Ace Lake, Antarctica". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 47 (4): 1068–1072. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-4-1068. ISSN 0020-7713.
Further reading
- Saunders, N. F.W. (2003). "Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation Revealed From the Genomes of the Antarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii". Genome Research 13 (7): 1580–1588. doi:10.1101/gr.1180903. ISSN 1088-9051.
- Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
- Garrett, Roger A., and Hans-Peter Klenk, eds. Archaea: evolution, physiology, and molecular biology. Wiley. com, 2008.
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