Methanothermus fervidus

Methanothermus fervidus is a species of methanogen.[1] It is notable for being extremely thermophilic. Its cells are rod-shaped; its complex cell envelope exhibits two layers, each about 12 nm thick; the inner represents the pseudomurein sacculus and the outer a protein envelope. The type strain is Methanothermus fervidus Stetter 1982. The cells are motile, strictly anaerobic and stain Gram positive. They can grow at temperatures as high as 97 °C. Strain V24ST can subsist on carbon dioxide and hydrogen alone. Its genome is 1,243,342 bp in length.[2]

Methanothermus fervidus
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Euryarchaeota
Class: Methanobacteria
Order: Methanobacteriales
Family: Methanothermaceae
Genus: Methanothermus
Species:
M. fervidus
Binomial name
Methanothermus fervidus
Stetter et al., 1981

References

  1. Stetter, Karl O.; Thomm, Michael; Winter, Josef; Wildgruber, Gertrud; Huber, Harald; Zillig, Wolfram; Jané-Covic, Davorin; König, Helmut; Palm, Peter; Wunderl, Simon (1981). "Methanothermus fervidus, sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic methanogen isolated from an Icelandic hot spring" (PDF). Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie Mikrobiologie und Hygiene: I. Abt. Originale C: Allgemeine, Angewandte und Ökologische Mikrobiologie. 2 (2): 166–178. doi:10.1016/s0721-9571(81)80038-5.
  2. Iain Anderson; Olivier Duplex Ngatchou Djao; Monica Misra; Olga Chertkov; et al. (2010-12-31). "Complete genome sequence of Methanothermus fervidus type strain (V24ST)". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 3 (3): 315–24. doi:10.4056/sigs.1283367. PMC 3035299. PMID 21304736.

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