Methanocella paludicola

Methanocella paludicola is a methane-producing archaeon, the type species of its genus. It was first isolated from rice paddy soil, and is mesophilic and hydrogenotrophic, with type strain SANAE^T (=JCM 13418^T =NBRC 101707^T =DSM 17711^T).[1]

Methanocella paludicola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanocellales
Family:	Methanocellaceae
Genus:	Methanocella
Species:	M. paludicola
Binomial name
Methanocella paludicola Sakai et al. 2008

References

1. Sakai, S.; Imachi, H.; Hanada, S.; Ohashi, A.; Harada, H.; Kamagata, Y. (2008). "Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (4): 929–936. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65571-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 18398197.

Further reading

• Randau, Lennart; Sakai, Sanae; Takaki, Yoshihiro; Shimamura, Shigeru; Sekine, Mitsuo; Tajima, Takahisa; Kosugi, Hiroki; Ichikawa, Natsuko; Tasumi, Eiji; Hiraki, Aiko T.; Shimizu, Ai; Kato, Yumiko; Nishiko, Rika; Mori, Koji; Fujita, Nobuyuki; Imachi, Hiroyuki; Takai, Ken (2011). "Genome Sequence of a Mesophilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen Methanocella paludicola, the First Cultivated Representative of the Order Methanocellales". PLoS ONE. 6 (7): e22898. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...622898S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022898. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3146512. PMID 21829548.
• Bartlett, Edward J. Structural and functional characterisation of the Nonhomologous End-Joining proteins of the archaeon Methanocella Paludicola. Diss. University of Sussex, 2013.

External links

• "Methanocella paludicola" at the Encyclopedia of Life
• LPSN
• Type strain of Methanocella paludicola at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase