Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii explained

Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Gerhard Gottschalk.^[1]

Description

It is a coccobacillus with rounded ends, about 0.7 micrometres in width and 0.9 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell wall is composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is HO^T (=DSM 11977^T =OCM 813^T). It was first isolated from horse and pig faeces.

Further reading

• Hackstein, Johannes HP, ed. (endo) symbiotic methanogenic archaea. Vol. 19. Springer, 2010.
• Book: Schaechter, Moselio . Encyclopedia of Microbiology . Academic Press [Imprint] . San Diego . 2009 . 978-0-12-373944-5 .
• Book: Falkow, Stanley . Dworkin, Martin . The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria . Springer . Berlin . 2006 . 0-387-25493-5 .
• Bignell, David Edward, Yves Roisin, and Nathan Lo, eds. Biology of termites: A modern synthesis. Springer, 2011.

External links

• LPSN
  • Type strain of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Miller. T. L.. 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. 2002. 819–822. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.02022-0. 12054244 .