Methanogenium frigidum
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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.
External links
- "Methanogenium frigidum" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- Type strain of Methanogenium frigidum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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