Methanobrevibacter thaueri
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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
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- Hackstein, Johannes HP, ed. (endo) symbiotic methanogenic archaea. Vol. 19. Springer, 2010.
- Schaechter, Moselio (2009). Encyclopedia of Microbiology. San Diego: Academic Press [Imprint]. ISBN 0-12-373944-6.
- Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
- Bignell, David Edward, Yves Roisin, and Nathan Lo, eds. Biology of termites: A modern synthesis. Springer, 2011.
External links
- LPSN
- "Methanobrevibacter thaueri" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Type strain of Methanobrevibacter thaueri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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