Methanocorpusculum
{{Short description|Genus of archaea}}
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{{Automatic_taxobox
| taxon = Methanocorpusculum
| authority = Zellner et al. 1988
| type_species = Methanocorpusculum parvum
| type_species_authority = Zellner et al. 1988
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- M. aggregans
- M. bavaricum
- "Ca. M. equi"
- "Ca. M. faecipullorum"
- M. labreanum
- M. parvum
- M. sinense
}}
In taxonomy, Methanocorpusculum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanocorpusculaceae. The species within Methanocorpusculum were first isolated from biodisgester wastewater and activated sludge from anaerobic digestors. In nature, they live in freshwater environments. Unlike most other methanogenic archaea, they do not require high temperatures or extreme salt concentrations to live and grow.{{cite journal|last1=Oren|first1=Aharon|title=The Family Methanocorpusculaceae|journal=The Prokaryotes|publisher=Springer|pages=225–230|date=2014-10-19|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_314|isbn=978-3-642-38953-5}}
Nomenclature
The name Methanocorpusculum has Latin roots. It means bodies that produce methane.{{cite book|editor1=David R. Boone|editor2=Richard W. Castenholz|edition=1|title=Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology|volume=1|pages=262|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3znhBwAAQBAJ&q=Bergey%27s+Methanocorpusculaceae&pg=PA262|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-21609-6|isbn=978-1-4419-3159-7|access-date=2016-07-31|year=2001|s2cid=41426624}}
Description and metabolism
The cells of these archaea are small, irregular, and coccoid in shape. They are Gram-negatives y and not very motile. They reduce carbon dioxide to methane using hydrogen, but they can also use formate or secondary alcohols. They cannot use acetate or methylamines. They grow fastest at temperatures of 30–40 °C.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN){{cite web|author=J.P. Euzéby |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/methanocorpusculaceae |title=Methanocorpusculaceae |access-date=2021-11-17 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}} and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).{{cite web |author = Sayers |display-authors=et al.| url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=88404&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Methanocorpusculaceae |access-date=2022-06-05 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database}}
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Further reading
- {{cite journal | author = Zellner G |author2=Stackebrandt E |author3=Messner P |author4=Tindall BJ |display-authors=4 |author5=Conway de Macario E |author6=Kneifel H |author7=Sleytr UB |author8=Winter J | date = 1989 | title = Methanocorpusculaceae fam. nov., represented by Methanocorpusculum parvum, Methanocorpusculum sinense spec. nov. and Methanocorpusculum bavaricum spec. nov | journal = Arch. Microbiol. | volume = 151 | pages = 381–390 | pmid = 2742452 | doi = 10.1007/BF00416595 | issue = 5|s2cid=30670085 }}
- {{cite journal | doi = 10.1099/00207713-39-2-109 | author = Xun L |author2=Boone DR |author3=Mah RA | date = 1989 | title = Deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization study of Methanogenium and Methanocorpusculum species, emendation of the genus Methanocorpusculum, and transfer of Methanogenium aggregans to the genus Methanocorpusculum as Methanocorpusculum aggregans comb. nov | journal = Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 109–111 | doi-access = free }}
- {{cite journal | author = Zellner G |author2=Alten C |author3=Stackebrandt E |author4=Conway De Macario E |display-authors=4 |author5=Winter J | date = 1987 | title = Isolation and characterization of Methanocorpusculum parvum gen. nov., spec. nov., a new tungsten requiring, coccoid methanogen | journal = Arch. Microbiol. | volume = 147 | pages = 13–20 | doi = 10.1007/BF00492898 |s2cid=40023103 }}
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