Methanoculleus submarinus

Species of archaeon

Methanoculleus submarinus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Archaea
Kingdom:  | Methanobacteriati
Phylum:  | Methanobacteriota
Class:  | "Methanomicrobia"
Order:  | Methanomicrobiales
Family:  | Methanomicrobiaceae
Genus:  | Methanoculleus
Species:  |

M. submarinus

Binomial name
Methanoculleus submarinus

Mikucki et al. 2003

Methanoculleus submarinus is a methanogen. It is non-motile and highly irregular coccoid-shaped (with average diameter of 0.8-2 μm).[1] Nankai-1 is its type strain.

## References

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1. ^ Mikucki, J. A.; Liu, Y.; Delwiche, M.; Colwell, F. S.; Boone, D. R. (2003). "Isolation of a Methanogen from Deep Marine Sediments That Contain Methane Hydrates, and Description of Methanoculleus submarinus sp. nov" (PDF). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69 (6): 3311–3316\. Bibcode:2003ApEnM..69.3311M. doi:10.1128/AEM.69.6.3311-3316.2003. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 161549. PMID 12788731.

## Further reading

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* Colwell, F.S. (June 2008). "Estimates of biogenic methane production rates in deep marine sediments at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia margin". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74 (11): 3444–3452\. Bibcode:2008ApEnM..74.3444C. doi:10.1128/AEM.02114-07. PMC 2423016. PMID 18344348.
* Schaechter, Moselio, ed. (2009). Encyclopedia of Microbiology (3rd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-373944-5. OCLC 399645273.
* Horikoshi, Koki, ed. (2011). Extremophiles Handbook. Tokyo: Springer Japan. doi:10.1007/978-4-431-53898-1. ISBN 978-4-431-53897-4.

## External links

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* LPSN
* "Methanoculleus submarinus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
* Type strain of Methanoculleus submarinus at BacDive \- the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Taxon identifiers

Methanoculleus submarinus|

* Wikidata: Q16985529
* Wikispecies: Methanoculleus submarinus
* BacDive: 7030
* CoL: 42FDM
* EoL: 973399
* GBIF: 1000391
* IRMNG: 10605067
* ITIS: 951806
* LPSN: methanoculleus-submarinus
* NCBI: 204050
* Open Tree of Life: 105685
* SeqCode Registry: 12237
* WoRMS: 573673

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