Methanogenium marinum

Methanogenium marinum is a psychrophilic, H2-using methanogen from Skan Bay, Alaska.[1] Its cells are highly irregular, non-motile coccoids (diameter, 1 to 1.2 μm), occurring singly. AK-1 is its type strain.

Methanogenium marinum
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M. marinum
Binomial name
Methanogenium marinum
Chong et al., 2002

Morphology

The cells are highly irregular and coccoid in shape and non-motile, 1 to 1.2 μm in diameter. Like other species within the genus Methanogenium, they are strictly anaerobic.[2]

References

  1. Chong, Song C.; Liu, Yitai; Cummins, Michael; Valentine, David L.; Boone, David R. (2002). "Methanogenium marinum sp. nov., a H2-using methanogen from Skan Bay, Alaska, and kinetics of H2 utilization". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 81 (1): 263–270. doi:10.1023/A:1020535222281. ISSN 0003-6072. S2CID 25076969.
  2. John G. Holt, ed. (1994). Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 722. ISBN 0683006037. Retrieved 2016-08-02.

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