Methanogenium marinum

Methanogenium marinum
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanomicrobia
Order: Methanomicrobiales
Family: Methanomicrobiaceae
Genus: Methanogenium
Species: M. marinum
Binomial name
Methanogenium marinum
Chong et al., 2002

Methanogenium marinum is a psychrophilic, H2-using methanogen from Skan Bay, Alaska.[1] Its cells are highly irregular, non-motile coccoids (diameter, 1 to 1.2 μm), occurring singly. AK-1 is its type strain.

Morphology

The cells are highly irregular and coccoid in shape and non-motile, 1 to 1.2 μm in diameter. Like other species within the genus Methanogenium, they are strictly anaerobic.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Chong, Song C.; Liu, Yitai; Cummins, Michael; Valentine, David L.; Boone, David R. (2002). "Methanogenium marinum sp. nov., a H2-using methanogen from Skan Bay, Alaska, and kinetics of H2 utilization". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 81 (1): 263–270. doi:10.1023/A:1020535222281. ISSN 0003-6072.
  2. ↑ John G. Holt, ed. (1994). Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 722. ISBN 0683006037. Retrieved 2016-08-02.

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. PMC 403754. PMID 12805271.
  • 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.


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