Methanocaldococcus formerly known as Methanococcus is a genus of coccoid methanogen archaea. They are all thermophiles, including M. infernus and the hyperthermophilic M. jannaschii. The latter was discovered at the base of a “white smoker” chimney at 21°N on the East Pacific Rise and it was the first archaean genome to be completely sequenced, revealing many novel and eukaryote-like elements.
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Methanocaldococcus formerly known as Methanococcus is a genus of coccoid methanogen archaea. They are all thermophiles, including M. infernus and the hyperthermophilic M. jannaschii. The latter was discovered at the base of a “white smoker” chimney at 21°N on the East Pacific Rise and it was the first archaean genome to be completely sequenced, revealing many novel and eukaryote-like elements.
==Nomenclature==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).