Methanococcales

Methanococcales
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Methanococci
Order:	Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981
Families
Methanocaldococcaceae Methanococcaceae

Methanococcales is an order of archaeans in the class Methanococci. ^[1]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). ^[1]

16S rRNA based LTP_06_2022 [3] [4] [5]	53 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214 [6] [7] [8]
Methanocaldococcaceae Methanocaldococcus Whitman 2002 Methanotorris Whitman 2002 Methanococcaceae Methanofervidicoccus Sakai et al. 2019 Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus (Huber et al. 1984) Whitman 2002 (type sp.) Methanothermococcus okinawensis Takai et al. 2002 Methanococcus aeolicus Kendall et al. 2006 Methanococcus Kluyver & van Niel 1936	Methanocaldococcaceae Methanocaldococcus Methanococcaceae Methanotorris Methanofervidicoccus [incl. Methanothermococcus okinawensis , Methanococcus aeolicus ] Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus Methanococcus

See also

• List of Archaea genera

References

1. Sayers; et al. "Methanococcales". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
2. Methanococcales in LPSN ; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Peinado-Olarte, Rosa L.; Göker, Markus (7 January 2022). "TYGS and LPSN: a database tandem for fast and reliable genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes". Nucleic Acids Research. 50 (D1): D801 –D807. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab902 .
3. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 May 2023.
4. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 May 2023.
5. "LTP_06_2022 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
6. "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2023.
7. "ar53_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2023.
8. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 10 May 2023.

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2005). "The nomenclatural types of the orders Acholeplasmatales, Halanaerobiales, Halobacteriales, Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Planctomycetales, Prochlorales, Sulfolobales, Thermococcales, Thermoproteales and Verrucomicrobiales are the genera Acholeplasma, Halanaerobium, Halobacterium, Methanobacterium, Methanococcus, Methanomicrobium, Planctomyces, Prochloron, Sulfolobus, Thermococcus, Thermoproteus and Verrucomicrobium, respectively. Opinion 79". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55 (Pt 1): 517–518. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63548-0 . PMID   15653928.
• Cavalier-Smith, T (2002). "The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 1): 7–76. doi: 10.1099/00207713-52-1-7 . PMID   11837318.
• Euzeby JP; Tindall BJ (2001). "Nomenclatural type of orders: corrections necessary according to Rules 15 and 21a of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision), and designation of appropriate nomenclatural types of classes and subclasses. Request for an Opinion". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51 (Pt 2): 725–727. doi: 10.1099/00207713-51-2-725 . PMID   11321122.
• Balch WE; Fox GE; Magrum LJ; Woses CR; et al. (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43 (2): 260–296. doi:10.1128/MMBR.43.2.260-296.1979. PMC   281474 . PMID   390357.

Scientific books

• Boone, DR (2001). "Class I. Methanobacteria class. nov." . In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp.  169. ISBN   978-0-387-98771-2.