Methanoculleus

Methanoculleus
Methanoculleus bourgensis strain E02.3
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Methanobacteriati
Phylum: Methanobacteriota
Class: "Methanomicrobia"
Order: Methanomicrobiales
Family: Methanomicrobiaceae
Genus:
Maestrojun et al. 1990
Type species
Methanoculleus bourgensis
corrig. (Ollivier et al. 1986) Maestrojun et al. 1990
Species

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Methanoculleus is a genus of microbes within the family Methanomicrobiaceae.[1] The species of the genus Methanoculleus live in marine environments brackish water, and are very common in bioreactors, landfills, and wastewater. Unlike other archaea, Methanoculleus and some species of related genera can use ethanol and some secondary alcohols as electron donors as they produce methane. This has implications as the production of methane as a greenhouse gas and consequences with respect to global climate change.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NCBI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "JGI Genome Portal, Methanoculleus". U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
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