- Source: Methanobrevibacter thaueri
Methanobrevibacter thaueri is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Rolf K. Thauer.
Description
Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about 0.5 micrometres in width and 0.6-1.2 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is CWT (=DSM 11995T =OCM 817T). It was first isolated from cow faeces.
References
Further reading
Hackstein, Johannes H. P., ed. (2010). (Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-13615-3. OCLC 669832766.
Schaechter, Moselio (2009). Encyclopedia of Microbiology. San Diego: Academic Press [Imprint]. ISBN 978-0-12-373944-5.
Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
Bignell, David Edward; Roisin, Yves; Lo, Nathan, eds. (2011). Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-90-481-3977-4. OCLC 682911246.
External links
LPSN
"Methanobrevibacter thaueri". The Encyclopedia of Life.
Type strain of Methanobrevibacter thaueri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase