Methanococci

Methanococci
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanococci
Order
Methanococcales
Synonyms
Methanococci Boone 2002 Methanothermea Methanothermea Cavalier-Smith 2002

In taxonomy, the Methanococci are a class of the Euryarchaeota.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 1): 7–76. PMID 11837318. 
• Woese, CR; Kandler O, Wheelis ML (1990). "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87 (12): 4576–4579. Bibcode 1990PNAS...87.4576W. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. PMC 54159. PMID 2112744. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=54159. 

Scientific books

• Boone, DR (2001). "Class I. Methanococci class. nov.". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712. 

• Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov.". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0387987712. 

Scientific databases

• PubMed references for Methanococci
• PubMed Central references for Methanococci
• Google Scholar references for Methanococci

External links

• NCBI taxonomy page for Methanococci
• Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Methanococci
• Search Species2000 page for Methanococci
• MicrobeWiki page for Methanococci
• LSPN page for Methanococci