- Source: Methanogenium marinum
Methanogenium marinum is a psychrophilic, H2-using methanogen from Skan Bay, Alaska. Its cells are highly irregular, non-motile coccoids (diameter, 1 to 1.2 μm), occurring singly. AK-1 is its type strain.
Morphology
The cells are highly irregular and coccoid in shape and non-motile, 1 to 1.2 μm in diameter. Like other species within the genus Methanogenium, they are strictly anaerobic.
References
Further reading
Saunders, N. F.W. (2003). "Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation Revealed From the Genomes of the Antarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii". Genome Research. 13 (7): 1580–1588. doi:10.1101/gr.1180903. ISSN 1088-9051. PMC 403754. PMID 12805271.
Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25493-5.
Garrett, Roger A.; Klenk, Hans-Peter, eds. (2007). Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-7148-9. OCLC 317384356.
External links
"Methanogenium marinum". The Encyclopedia of Life.
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WORMS entry
Type strain of Methanogenium marinum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase