Methanocalculus halotolerans
Methanocalculus halotolerans is a species of archaeon, the type species of its genus. It is an irregular coccoid hydrogenotrophic methanogen. Its type strain is SEBR 4845T (= OCM 470T).[1]
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| Species: | M. halotolerans Ollivier et al. 1998 |
Nomenclature
The name "Methanocalculus" has Latin roots, "methano" for methane and "calculus" for small round structure, "halo" for salt and "tolerans" for tolerant. In all, the name means salt-tolerant organism with a gravelly body that produces methane.[2]
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References
- Ollivier, B.; Fardeau, M.-L.; Cayol, J.-L.; Magot, M.; Patel, B. K. C.; Prensier, G.; Garcia, J.-L. (1998). "Methanocalculus halotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an oil-producing well". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (3): 821–828. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-3-821. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9734036.
- David R. Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (13 January 2012). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 1 (2 ed.). Nueva York: Springer Science and Business Media. p. 267. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21609-6. ISBN 978-1-4419-3159-7. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
Further reading
- Dworkin, Martin.; Falkow, Stanley. (2006). The prokaryotes : a handbook on the biology of bacter. New York ; [London]: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
- Schaechter, Moselio. Encyclopedia of microbiology. Academic Press, 2009.
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