Methanobacteriales

Methanobacteriales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanobacteria
Order: Methanobacteriales
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Families

Methanobacteriales is an order of archaeans in the class Methanobacteria.[1] Species within this order differ from other methanogens in that they can use fewer catabolic substrates and have distinct morphological characteristics, lipid compositions, and RNA sequences.[2] Their cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. Most species are Gram-positive with rod-shaped bodies and some can form long filaments. Most of them use formate to reduce carbon dioxide, but those of the genus Methanosphaera use hydrogen to reduce methanol to methane.[2]

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  2. ^ a b Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. 3. Springer: 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5.