Methanosalsum

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Methanosalsum
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Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Methanobacteriati
Phylum: Halobacteriota
Class: Methanomicrobia
Order: Methanosarcinales
Family: Methanosarcinaceae
Genus: Methanosalsum
Boone and Baker 2002
Type species
Methanosalsum zhilinae
(Mathrani et al. 1988) Boone & Baker 2002
Species

Methanosalsum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanosarcinaceae. [1] This genus contains two species.

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Methanosalsum zhilinae was isolated from the saline and alkaline sediments of Wadi Natrun in Egypt and from Lake Magadi. It is moderately halophilic. [2] [3]

Methanosalsum natronophilum (natronophilum means soda-loving) was isolated from hypersaline soda lakes. [4]

See also

References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanosalsum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. Koki Horikoshi; Garabed Antranikian; Alan T. Bull; Frank T. Robb; Karl O. Stetter, eds. (2010-12-08). Extremophiles Handbook. Springer Science and Business Media. p. 260. ISBN   978-4431538974.
  3. Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 246. ISBN   0387254935 . Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  4. Sorokin, Dimitry Y.; Abbas, Ben; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Merkel, Alexander Y.; Sukhacheva, Marina V.; Rijpstra, W. Irene C.; van Loosdrecht, Mark C. M. (2015). "Methanosalsum natronophilum sp. nov., and Methanocalculus alkaliphilus sp. nov., haloalkaliphilic methanogens from hypersaline soda lakes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (10): 3739–3745. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000488 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   26228570.

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