Methanococcoides

In taxonomy, Methanococcoides is a genus of the Methanosarcinaceae.[1]

Methanococcoides
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Methanococcoides
Binomial name
Methanococcoides
Sowers and Ferry 1985
Species

Methanococcoides species are methanogens entirely dependent on methylated compounds for nutrition. The type species of Methanococcoides is Methanococcoides methylutens.[2][3]

References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanococcoides. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. Yue Guan; David K. Ngugi; Jochen Blom; Shahjahan Ali; James G. Ferry; Ulrich Stingl (20 November 2014). "Draft Genome Sequence of an Obligately Methylotrophic Methanogen, Methanococcoides methylutens, Isolated from Marine Sediment". Genome Announcements. 2 (6): e01184-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01184-14. PMC 4239356. PMID 25414501.
  3. D.R. Boone; et al. (2001). "Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology" (ed.). Order III: methanosarcinales (vol. 1, 2nd ed.). New York: Springer.

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