Methanobrevibacter woesei

Methanobrevibacter woesei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanobacteria
Order:	Methanobacteriales
Family:	Methanobacteriaceae
Genus:	Methanobrevibacter
Species:	M. woesei
Binomial name
Methanobrevibacter woesei Miller and Lin, 2002

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

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 GS^T(=DSM 11979^T =OCM 815^T). 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. PMID 12054244.
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 H. P., ed. (2010). (Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-13615-3. OCLC 669832766.
• Schaechter, Moselio (2009). Encyclopedia of Microbiology. San Diego: Academic Press [Imprint]. ISBN 978-0-12-373944-5.
• Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
• Bignell, David Edward; Roisin, Yves; Lo, Nathan, eds. (2011). Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-90-481-3977-4. OCLC 682911246.

External links

• LPSN
• "Methanobrevibacter woesei". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Type strain of Methanobrevibacter woesei at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase