Methanospirillum
Sign in to saveMethanospirillum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanospirillaceae. All its species are methanogenic archaea. The cells are bar-shaped and form filaments. Most produce energy via the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen, but some species can also use formate as a substrate. They are Gram-negative and move using archaella on the sides of the cells. They are strictly anaerobic, and they are found in wetland soil and anaerobic water treatment systems.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomArchaea
- PhylumHalobacteriota
- ClassMethanomicrobia
- OrderMethanomicrobiales
- FamilyMethanospirillaceae
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Research
380 papers- The Archaellum of Methanospirillum hungatei Is Electrically Conductive.mBio · 2019
- Composition and in situ structure of the Methanospirillum hungatei cell envelope and surface layer.Science advances · 2024
- Methanospirillum psychrodurum sp. nov., isolated from wetland soil.International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology · 2014
- Stimulating Effect of Trichococcus flocculiformis on a Coculture of Syntrophomonas wolfei and Methanospirillum hungatei.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022
- Methanospirillum stamsii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, hydrogenotrophic, methanogenic archaeon isolated from an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed bioreactor operated at low temperature.International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology · 2014
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Methanospirillum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanospirillaceae. All its species are methanogenic archaea. The cells are bar-shaped and form filaments. Most produce energy via the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen, but some species can also use formate as a substrate. They are Gram-negative and move using archaella on the sides of the cells. They are strictly anaerobic, and they are found in wetland soil and anaerobic water treatment systems.
==Phylogeny== The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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