Methanococcus

Methanococcus est un genre d'archées méthanogènes de la famille des Methanococcaceae. Ce sont des cocci irréguliers et mobiles, anaérobies et mésophiles.

Notes et références

(en) Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, « The nomenclatural types of the orders Acholeplasmatales, Halanaerobiales, Halobacteriales, Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Planctomycetales, Prochlorales, Sulfolobales, Thermococcales, Thermoproteales and Verrucomicrobiales are the genera Acholeplasma, Halanaerobium, Halobacterium, Methanobacterium, Methanococcus, Methanomicrobium, Planctomyces, Prochloron, Sulfolobus, Thermococcus, Thermoproteus and Verrucomicrobium, respectively. Opinion 79 », Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., vol. 55, n^o Pt 1,‎ 2005, p. 517–518. DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63548-0 PMID 15653928

(en) Jeanthon C, L'Haridon S, Pradel N, Prieur D, « Rapid identification of hyperthermophilic methanococci isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents », Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., vol. 49,‎ 1999, p. 591–594. DOI 10.1099/00207713-49-2-591 PMID 10319480

(en) Keswani J, Orkand S, Premachandran U, Mandelco L, Franklin MJ, Whitman WB, « Phylogeny and taxonomy of mesophilic Methanococcus spp. and comparison of rRNA, DNA hybridization, and phenotypic methods », Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., vol. 46, n^o 3,‎ 1996, p. 727–735. DOI 10.1099/00207713-46-3-727 PMID 8782682

(en) LG Wayne, « Actions of the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology on requests for opinions published in1983 and 1984 », Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., vol. 36,‎ 1986, p. 357–358. DOI 10.1099/00207713-36-2-357

(en) Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, « Transfer of the type species of the genus Methanococcus to the genus Methanosarcina as Methanosarcina mazei (Barker 1936) comb. nov. et emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984 and conservation of the genus Methanococcus (Approved Lists, 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984 with Methanococcus vannielii (Approved Lists, 1980) as the type species », Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., vol. 36,‎ 1986, p. 491. DOI 10.1099/00207713-36-3-491

(en) Mah RA, Kuhn DA, « Transfer of the type species of the genus Methanococcus to the genus Methanosarcina naming it Methanosarcina mazei (Barker 1936) comb. nov. et emend. and conservation of the genus Methanococcus (Approved Lists, 1980) with Methanococcus vannielii (Approved Lists, 1980) as the type species. Request for an opinion », Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., vol. 34,‎ 1984, p. 263–265. DOI 10.1099/00207713-34-2-263

(en) Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woses CR, Wolfe RS, « Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group », Microbiol. Rev., vol. 43, n^o 2,‎ 1979, p. 260–296 (PMCID 281474). PMID 390357

(en) Kluyver AJ, van Niel CB, « Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria », Zentralbl. Bakterol. Parasitenkd. Infectinskr. Hyg., Abt. II, vol. 94,‎ 1936, p. 369–403.

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