Methylomonas scandinavica

Methylomonas scandinavica
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Methylococcales
Family: Methylococcaceae
Genus: Methylomonas
Species:
M. scandinavica
Binomial name
Methylomonas scandinavica
Kalyuzhnaya et al., 2000

Methylomonas scandinavica is a species of Gram-negative gammaproteobacteria found in deep igneous rock ground water in Sweden.[1] As a member of the Methylomonas genus, M. scandinavica has the ability to use methane as a carbon source.

  1. ^ Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya; Valentina N. Khmelenina; Svetlana Kotelnikova; Louise Holmquist; Karsten Pedersen; Yuri A. Trotsenko (December 1999). "Methylomonas Scandinavica sp. nov., a New Methanotrophic Psychrotophic Bacterium isolated from Deep Igneous Rock Ground Water of Sweden". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 22 (4): 565–572. doi:10.1016/s0723-2020(99)80010-1.
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