Methanobrevibacter wolinii

Methanobrevibacter wolinii is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Meyer J. Wolin.^[1]

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

Description

Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about t 0.6 micrometres in width and 1.0-1.4 micrometres 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 SH^T (=DSM 11976^T =OCM 814^T). It was first isolated from sheep faeces.

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.

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 wolinii" at the Encyclopedia of Life