Methanobrevibacter woesei

Methanobrevibacter woesei is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Carl R. Woese.[1]

Methanobrevibacter woesei
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanobacteria
Order:
Methanobacteriales
Family:
Methanobacteriaceae
Genus:
Methanobrevibacter
Species:
M. woesei

Miller and Lin, 2002

Description

Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about 0.6 micrometres in width and 1 micrometre 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 GST(=DSM 11979T =OCM 815T). It was first isolated from goose faeces.[2]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Saengkerdsub, S.; Anderson, R. C.; Wilkinson, H. H.; Kim, W.-K.; Nisbet, D. J.; Ricke, S. C. (2006). "Identification and Quantification of Methanogenic Archaea in Adult Chicken Ceca". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73 (1): 353–356. doi:10.1128/AEM.01931-06. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 1797138. PMID 17085694.

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.


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