Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii

{{Short description|Species of archaeon}}

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| genus = Methanobrevibacter

| species = gottschalkii

| authority = Miller and Lin, 2002

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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.