Methanoculleus

In taxonomy, Methanoculleus is a genus of microbes within the family Methanomicrobiaceae.[1] 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.[2]

Methanoculleus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanomicrobia
Order:
Methanomicrobiales
Family:
Methanomicrobiaceae
Genus:
Methanoculleus
Binomial name
Methanoculleus
Maestrojun et al. 1990
Species
  • M. bourgensis
  • M. chikugoensis
  • M. marisnigri
  • M. palmolei
  • M. receptaculi
  • M. submarinus
  • M. thermophilus

References
  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanoculleus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. "JGI Genome Portal, Methanoculleus". U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-24.

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