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 Zhilina and Zavarzin 1988
Type species
Methanohalobium evestigatum corrig. 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]

See also

• List of Archaea genera

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. "Info - Methanohalobium evestigatum Z-7303". Archived from the original on 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
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 978-4431538974. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
4. Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science and Business Media. p. 246. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 2016-08-07.

Further reading

• Springer E; Sachs MS; Woese CR; Boone DR (1995). "Partial gene sequences for the A subunit of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (mcrI) as a phylogenetic tool for the family Methanosarcinaceae". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 45 (3): 554–559. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-3-554. PMID 8590683.
• Zhilina, T. N.; G. A. Zavarzin (1987). "[Methanohalobium evestigatus, n. gen., n. sp. The extremely halophilic methanogenic Archaebacterium]". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 293: 464–468.
• Sowers KR; Johnson JL; Ferry JG (1984). "Phylogenic relationships among the methylotrophic methane-producing bacteria and emendation of the family Methanosarcinaceae". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34 (4): 444–450. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-4-444.
• Balch WE; Fox GE; Magrum LJ; Woses CR; et al. (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43 (2): 260–296. doi:10.1128/MMBR.43.2.260-296.1979. PMC 281474. PMID 390357.

External links

• Methanohalobium at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase