Methanolacinia

Methanolacinia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Methanobacteriati
Phylum: Methanobacteriota
Class: "Methanomicrobia"
Order: Methanomicrobiales
Family: Methanomicrobiaceae
Genus: Methanolacinia
Zellner et al. 1990
Type species
Methanolacinia paynteri
(Rivard et al. 1984) Zellner et al. 1990
Species

Methanolacinia is a genus of archaeans in the family Methanomicrobiaceae. The cells are bar-shaped and irregular 0.6 μm in diameter and 1.5–2.5 μm in length. They do not form endospores. Most are non-motile, but some have a single flagellum. They are strictly anaerobic. They produce methane through the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen and cannot use formate, acetate or methyl compounds as substrates.

See also

References

  1. ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Methanolacinia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ↑ John G. Holt, ed. (1994). Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. p. 722. ISBN 0683006037. Retrieved 2016-08-08.

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