Methanocalculus

Methanocalculus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanomicrobia
Order:
Methanomicrobiales
Family:
Methanocorpusculaceae
Genus:
Methanocalculus

Ollivier et al. 1998
Type species
Methanocalculus halotolerans
Ollivier et al. 1998
Species

Methanocalculus is a genus of the Methanomicrobiales, and is known to include methanogens.[1]

The genome of Methanocalculus is somewhat different from other genera of methanogenic archaea, with less than 90% 16S ribosomal RNA similarity.[2] The species within Methanocalculus also have a greater tolerance to salt than other microorganisms, and they can live at salt concentrations as high as 125 g/L.[3] Some species within Methanocalculus are neutrophiles, and Methanocalculus natronophilus, discovered in 2013, is a strict alkaliphile.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NCBI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b T.N. Zhilina; D.G. Zavarzina; V.V. Kevbrin; T.V. Kolganova (November 2013). "Methanocalculus natronophilus sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaeon from a soda lake, and proposal of the new family Methanocalculaceae". Mikrobiologiya. 82 (6): 698–706. doi:10.1134/S0026261713060131. S2CID 9754709.
  3. ^ David R. Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2012-01-13). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Nueva York: Springer Science and Business Media. p. 267. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21609-6. ISBN 978-1-4419-3159-7. S2CID 41426624. Retrieved 2016-07-26.