Methanohalobium

In taxonomy, Methanohalobium is a genus of the Methanosarcinaceae.[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2] The genus contains one species, M. evestigatum.

Methanohalobium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanomicrobia
Order:
Methanosarcinales
Family:
Methanosarcinaceae
Genus:
Methanohalobium
Binomial name
Methanohalobium
Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988
Species
  • M. evestigatum

The species are strictly anaerobic and live solely through the production of methane through the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen or using methyl compounds as substrates. These species are only somewhat halophilic but extremely thermophilic.[3][4]

References
  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanohalobium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2012-03-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Koki Horikoshi; Garabed Antranikian; Alan T. Bull; Frank T. Robb; Karl O. Stetter, eds. (2010-12-08). Extremophiles Handbook. Springer Science and Business Media. p. 260. ISBN 4431538976. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
  4. Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. 3. Springer Science and Business Media. p. 246. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

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