Methanothermococcus okinawensis

Methanothermococcus okinawensis
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanococci
Order: Methanococcales
Family: Methanococcaceae
Genus: Methanothermococcus
Species: M. okinawensis
Binomial name
Methanothermococcus okinawensis
Takai et al. 2002

Methanothermococcus okinawensis is a thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon first isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the western Pacific Ocean. Its cells are highly motile, irregular cocci, with a polar bundle of flagella. Its type strain is IH1T (=JCM 11175T =DSM 14208T).[1]

References

  1. Takai, K. (2002). "Methanothermococcus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vent system". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52 (4): 1089–1095. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02106-0. ISSN 1466-5026.

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