Methanosphaera

In taxonomy, Methanosphaera is a genus of microbes within the family Methanobacteriaceae.[1] It was distinguished from other genera within Methanobacteriaceae in 1985 on the basis of the oligonucleotide sequence of its 16S RNA.[2] Like other archaea within Methanobacteriaceae, those of Methanosphaera are methanogens, but while most use formate to reduce carbon dioxide, those of Methanosphaera use hydrogen to reduce methanol to methane.[3]

Methanosphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Kingdom:
Euryarchaeota
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Methanobacteria
Order:
Methanobacteriales
Family:
Methanobacteriaceae
Genus:
Methanosphaera
Binomial name
Methanosphaera
Miller and Wolin 1985
Species

References
  1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanosphaera. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. David R Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2001). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume I: The Archaea and the Deeply Branching Phototrophic Bacteria (2 ed.). Springer. p. 227. ISBN 978-1-4419-3159-7. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  3. Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. 3. Springer. pp. 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5.

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