Global InformationMethanocalculus information
| Methanocalculus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea
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| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota
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| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota
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| Class: | Methanomicrobia
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| Order: | Methanomicrobiales
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| Family: | Methanocorpusculaceae
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| Genus: | Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998
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| Type species | |
| Methanocalculus halotolerans Ollivier et al. 1998
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Methanocalculus is a genus of the Methanomicrobiales, and is known to include methanogens.[1]
The genome of Methanocalculus is somewhat different from other genera of methanogenic archaea, with less than 90% 16S ribosomal RNA similarity.[2] The species within Methanocalculus also have a greater tolerance to salt than other microorganisms, and they can live at salt concentrations as high as 125 g/L.[3] Some species within Methanocalculus are neutrophiles, and Methanocalculus natronophilus, discovered in 2013, is a strict alkaliphile.[2]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
NCBIwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b T.N. Zhilina; D.G. Zavarzina; V.V. Kevbrin; T.V. Kolganova (November 2013). "Methanocalculus natronophilus sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaeon from a soda lake, and proposal of the new family Methanocalculaceae". Mikrobiologiya. 82 (6): 698–706. doi:10.1134/S0026261713060131. S2CID 9754709.
- ^ David R. Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2012-01-13). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Nueva York: Springer Science and Business Media. p. 267. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21609-6. ISBN 978-1-4419-3159-7. S2CID 41426624. Retrieved 2016-07-26.