Methanococci
{{Short description|Class of archaea}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Methanococci
| authority = Boone 2002
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| synonyms =
- "Methanococcia" Oren, Parte & Garrity 2016
- Methanothermea Cavalier-Smith 2002
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Methanococci is a class of methanogenic archaea in the phylum Euryarchaeota.See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=183939 webpage on Methanococci]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | accessdate=2007-03-19}} They can be mesophilic, thermophilic or hyperthermophilic.
See also
References
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Further reading
=Scientific journals=
- {{cite journal | last = Cavalier-Smith | first = T | date = 2002 | title = The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification | journal = Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. | volume = 52 | pages = 7–76 | pmid = 11837318 | issue = Pt 1 | doi=10.1099/00207713-52-1-7| doi-access = free }}
- {{cite journal | last = Woese | first = CR |author2=Kandler O |author3=Wheelis ML | date = 1990 | title = Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya | journal = Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA | volume = 87 | pages = 4576–4579 | pmid = 2112744 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576 | issue = 12 | pmc = 54159 | bibcode=1990PNAS...87.4576W| doi-access = free }}
- {{cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Yuchen|last2=White|first2=Robert H.|last3=Whitman|first3=William B.|title=Methanococci Use the Diaminopimelate Aminotransferase (DapL) Pathway for Lysine Biosynthesis|journal=Journal of Bacteriology|date=July 2010|volume=192|issue=13|pages=3304–3310|doi=10.1128/JB.00172-10|pmid=20418392|pmc=2897669}}
=Scientific books=
- {{cite book | last = Boone | first = DR | date = 2001 | chapter = Class I. Methanococci class. nov. | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria | edition = 2nd | editor = DR Boone | editor2 = RW Castenholz | pages = [https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/169 169] | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-387-98771-2 | chapter-url-access = registration | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/169 }}
- {{cite book | last = Garrity GM, Holt JG | date = 2001 | chapter = Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov. | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria | edition = 2nd | editor = DR Boone | editor2 = RW Castenholz | pages = [https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/169 169] | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-387-98771-2 | chapter-url-access = registration | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/169 }}
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