Methanococci Explained

Methanococci is a class of methanogenic archaea in the phylum Euryarchaeota.^[1] They can be mesophilic, thermophilic or hyperthermophilic.

See also

• List of Archaea genera

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Cavalier-Smith . T . 2002 . The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification . Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. . 52 . 7 - 76 . 11837318 . Pt 1 . 10.1099/00207713-52-1-7. free .
• Woese . CR . Kandler O . Wheelis ML . 1990 . Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . 87 . 4576 - 4579 . 2112744 . 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576 . 12 . 54159 . 1990PNAS...87.4576W. free .
• Liu. Yuchen. White. Robert H.. Whitman. William B.. Methanococci Use the Diaminopimelate Aminotransferase (DapL) Pathway for Lysine Biosynthesis. Journal of Bacteriology. July 2010. 192. 13. 3304–3310. 10.1128/JB.00172-10. 20418392. 2897669.

Scientific books

• Book: Boone, DR . 2001 . Class I. Methanococci class. nov. . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria . 2nd . DR Boone . RW Castenholz . 169 . . New York . 978-0-387-98771-2 . registration . https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/169 .
• Book: Garrity GM, Holt JG . 2001 . Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov. . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria . 2nd . DR Boone . RW Castenholz . 169 . Springer Verlag . New York . 978-0-387-98771-2 . registration . https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/169 .

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanococci. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.