Methanosalsum

Methanosalsum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanomicrobia
Order:
Methanosarcinales
Family:
Methanosarcinaceae
Genus:
Methanosalsum

Boone and Baker 2002
Type species
Methanosalsum zhilinae
(Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone & Baker 2002
Species

In taxonomy, Methanosalsum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanosarcinaceae.[1] This genus contains two species.

Methanosalsum zhilinae was isolated from the saline and alkaline sediments of Wadi Natrun in Egypt and from Lake Magadi. It is moderately halophilic.[2][3]

Methanosalsum natronophilum (natronophilum means soda-loving) was isolated from hypersaline soda lakes.[4]

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanosalsum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Koki Horikoshi; Garabed Antranikian; Alan T. Bull; Frank T. Robb; Karl O. Stetter, eds. (2010-12-08). Extremophiles Handbook. Springer Science and Business Media. p. 260. ISBN 978-4431538974.
  3. ^ Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 246. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  4. ^ Sorokin, Dimitry Y.; Abbas, Ben; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Merkel, Alexander Y.; Sukhacheva, Marina V.; Rijpstra, W. Irene C.; van Loosdrecht, Mark C. M. (2015). "Methanosalsum natronophilum sp. nov., and Methanocalculus alkaliphilus sp. nov., haloalkaliphilic methanogens from hypersaline soda lakes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (10): 3739–3745. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000488. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 26228570.