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Methanotorris

{{Short description|Genus of archaea}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| taxon = Methanotorris

| authority = Whitman 2002

| type_species = Methanotorris igneus

| type_species_authority = (Burggraf et al. 1990) Whitman 2002

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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In taxonomy, Methanotorris is a genus of the Methanocaldococcaceae.See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=196119 webpage on Methanotorris]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |access-date=2007-03-19}} The organisms in this genus differ from those of Methanothermococcus in that they are hyperthermophiles and from those of Methanocaldococcus in that they have no flagella, are not motile, and do not require selenium to grow. These microbes have not been shown to cause any illnesses.{{cite book|editor1=David R. Boone|editor2=Richard W. Castenholz|title=Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3znhBwAAQBAJ&q=%22genus+Methanotorris%22&pg=PA246|volume=1|edition=2|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|pages=245–246|date=2012-01-13|access-date=2016-09-09 |isbn=978-0387216096}}

Nomenclature

The name "Methanotorris" comes from the Latin methanum for methane and torris for fire. Overall, it means "organism that produces methane at high temperatures."

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Further reading

=Scientific journals=

  • {{cite journal|last1=Takai|first1=Ken|last2=Nealson|first2=Ken H.|last3=Horikoshi|first3=Kori|title=Methanotorris formicius sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Central Indian Ridge|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=July 2004|volume=54|issue=4|pages=1095–1100|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.02887-0|pmid=15280275|doi-access=free}}

=Scientific books=

  • {{cite book | last = Whitman | first = WB | date = 2001 | chapter = Genus II. Methanotorris gen. 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 | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-387-98771-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon }}
  • {{cite book | author = Whitman WB | author2 = Boone DR | author3 = Koga Y | date = 2001 | chapter = Family II. Methanocaldococcaceae fam. 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 | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-387-98771-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon }}

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Category:Archaea genera

Category:Euryarchaeota

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