Methanobrevibacter thaueri Miller & Lin, 2002
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Euryarchaeota
- phylum
- Euryarchaeota
- class
- Methanobacteria
- order
- Methanobacteriales
- family
- Methanobacteriaceae
- genus
- Methanobrevibacter
- species
- Methanobrevibacter thaueri
Abstract
Methanobrevibacter thaueri is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Rolf K. Thauer.
Description
Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about 0.5 micrometres in width and 0.6-1.2 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is CWT (=DSM 11995T =OCM 817T). It was first isolated from cow faeces.