- Source: Methanosphaera stadtmanae
Methanosphaera stadtmanae is a methanogen archaeon. It is a non-motile, Gram-positive, spherical-shaped organism that obtains energy by using hydrogen to reduce methanol to methane. It does not possess cytochromes and is part of the large intestine's biota.
References
Further reading
Wilson, Michael (2005). Microbial inhabitants of humans: their ecology and role in health and disease. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84158-0.
Dridi, Bédis; Khelaifia, Saber; Fardeau, Marie-Laure; Ollivier, Bernard; Drancourt, Michel (2012). "Tungsten-enhanced growth of Methanosphaera stadtmanae". BMC Research Notes. 5 (1): 238. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-238. ISSN 1756-0500. PMC 3439257. PMID 22587398.
Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-25493-7.
External links
"Methanosphaera stadtmanae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
Type strain of Methanosphaera stadtmanae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase