Methanoculleus Explained

Methanoculleus is a genus of microbes within the family Methanomicrobiaceae. The species of the genus Methanoculleus live in marine environments brackish water, and are very common in bioreactors, landfills, and wastewater. Unlike other archaea, Methanoculleus and some species of related genera can use ethanol and some secondary alcohols as electron donors as they produce methane. This has implications as the production of methane as a greenhouse gas and consequences with respect to global climate change.^[1]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[3]

See also

• List of Archaea genera

Further reading

• 10.1099/00207713-40-2-117 . Maestrojuan GM . Boone DR . Xun LY . Mah RA . 4 . Zhang LF . 1990 . Transfer of Methanogenium bourgense, Methanogenium marisnigri, Methanogenium olentangyi, and Methanogenium thermophilicum to the genus Methanoculleus gen. nov, emendation of Methanoculleus marisnigri and Methanogenium, and description of new strains of Methanoculleus bourgense and Methanoculleus marisnigr . Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. . 40 . 117 - 122 . free .
• Balch WE . Fox GE . Magrum LJ . Woese CR . 4 . Wolfe RS . 1979 . Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group . Microbiol. Rev. . 43 . 260 - 296 . 390357 . 2 . 281474 . 10.1128/MMBR.43.2.260-296.1979.

Notes and References

1. Web site: JGI Genome Portal, Methanoculleus. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. 2016-07-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20160816172508/http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/metma/metma.home.html. 2016-08-16. dead.
2. Web site: J.P. Euzéby . Methanoculleus . 2021-11-17 . List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN).
3. Web site: Sayers . et al.. Methanoculleus . 2022-06-05 . National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database.
4. Web site: The LTP . 10 May 2023.
5. Web site: LTP_all tree in newick format. 10 May 2023.
6. Web site: LTP_06_2022 Release Notes. 10 May 2023.
7. Web site: GTDB release 08-RS214 . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
8. Web site: ar53_r214.sp_label . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
9. Web site: Taxon History . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.