Methanobacteriales

In taxonomy, the Methanobacteriales are an order of the Methanobacteria.[1] Species within this order differ from other methanogens in that they can use fewer catabolic substrates and have distinct morphological characteristics, lipid compositions, and RNA sequences.[2] Their cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. Most species are Gram-positive with rod-shaped bodies and some can form long filaments. Most of them use formate to reduce carbon dioxide, but those of the genus Methanosphaera use hydrogen to reduce methanol to methane.[2]

Methanobacteriales
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanobacteria Boone 2002
Order:
Methanobacteriales
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Families

References
  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanobacteriales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. Springer. 3: 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5.

Further reading

Scientific journals

Scientific books
  • Boone, DR (2001). "Class I. Methanobacteria class. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
  • Murray, RGE (1984). "The higher taxa, or, a place for everything...". In NR Krieg; JG Holt (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 1 (1st ed.). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co. pp. 31–34.

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