Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii
{{Short description|Species of archaeon}}
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| genus = Methanobrevibacter
| species = gottschalkii
| authority = Miller and Lin, 2002
}}
Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Gerhard Gottschalk.{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=T. L.|title=Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=52|issue=3|date=2002|pages=819–822|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.02022-0|pmid=12054244 }}
Description
It is a coccobacillus with rounded ends, about 0.7 micrometres in width and 0.9 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell wall is composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is HOT (=DSM 11977T =OCM 813T). It was first isolated from horse and pig faeces.
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Further reading
- Hackstein, Johannes HP, ed. (endo) symbiotic methanogenic archaea. Vol. 19. Springer, 2010.
- {{cite book |author=Schaechter, Moselio |title=Encyclopedia of Microbiology |publisher=Academic Press [Imprint] |location=San Diego |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-12-373944-5 }}
- {{cite book |author=Falkow, Stanley |author2=Dworkin, Martin |title=The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |date=2006 |isbn=0-387-25493-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/The_Prokaryotes_Vol._1_Symbiotic_Associations_Biotechnology_Applied_Microbiology}}
- Bignell, David Edward, Yves Roisin, and Nathan Lo, eds. Biology of termites: A modern synthesis. Springer, 2011.
External links
- [https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/methanobrevibacter LPSN]
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- [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=6973&submit=Search Type strain of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
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Category:Archaea described in 2002
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