Methanosphaera

Methanosphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Methanobacteria
Order:	Methanobacteriales
Family:	Methanobacteriaceae
Genus:	; Miller and Wolin 1985
Type species
	Methanosphaera stadtmanae; corrig. Miller & Wolin 1985
Species
	M. cuniculi; "M. massiliense"; M. stadtmanae;

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]

^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanosphaera. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ 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.
^ Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer. pp. 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5.

[1] See the NCBI webpage on Methanosphaera. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

[Bergey-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.

[Boone-3] Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer. pp. 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5.

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