Methanopyrales

In taxonomy, the Methanopyrales are an order of microbes within the class methanopyri.[1]

Methanopyrales
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanopyri
Order:
Methanopyrales
Binomial name
Methanopyrales
Huber and Stetter 2002
Family

It contains only one family, Methanopyraceae, one genus, Methanopyrus, and one species, Methanopyrus kandleri.[2] This species is chemolithoautotrophic and its cells are bacillus in form. It grows comfortably at temperatures of 98 °C and can survive at temperatures as high as 110 °C, making it the most thermophilic known methanogen. They live in hydrothermal vents.[3] They are similar to Methanobacteriales, but unlike other methanogenic archaea, their cell walls contain pseudomurein.[4]

References
  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanopyrales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. Guillaume Lecointre; Hervé Le Guyader (2006). Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification. 20. Harvard University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0674021839. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
  3. Aharon Oren (2014-10-19). "The Family Methanopyraceae". The Prokaryotes. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 247–252. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_328. ISBN 978-3-642-38954-2.
  4. Jean-Claude Bertrand; Pierre Caumette; Philippe Lebaron; Robert Matheron; Philippe Normand; Télesphore Sime-Ngando, eds. (2015-01-26). Environmental Microbiology: Fundamentals and Applications: Microbial Ecology. Springer. p. 170. ISBN 978-9401791182. Retrieved 2016-08-20.

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