Taxonavigation

Prokaryota
Superregnum: Archaea
Regnum: Archaea
Phylum: Euryarchaeota
Classis: Methanomicrobia
Ordo: Methanosarcinales
Familia: Methanosarcinaceae
Genus: Methanosarcina
Species: Methanosarcina acetivorans – Methanosarcina baltica – Methanosarcina barkeri – Methanosarcina calensis – Methanosarcina flavescens – Methanosarcina horonobensis – Methanosarcina lacustris – Methanosarcina mazei – Methanosarcina semesiae – Methanosarcina siciliae – Methanosarcina soligelidi – Methanosarcina spelaei – Methanosarcina subterranea – Methanosarcina thermophila – Methanosarcina vacuolata

Name

Methanosarcina Kluyver, 1936

References

• Sowers, K.R. (1984). Methanosarcina acetivorans sp. nov., an Acetotrophic Methane-Producing Bacterium Isolated from Marine Sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 47(5): 971–978.
• Galagan, J.E. et al. (2002). The genome of M. acetivorans reveals extensive metabolic and physiological diversity. Genome res. 12(4): 532–542.
• Maeder, G.L. et al. (2006). The Methanosarcina barkeri genome: comparative analysis with Methanosarcina acetivorans and Methanosarcina mazei reveals extensive rearrangement within methanosarcinal genomes. J Bacteriol. 188(22):7922-7931.
• Deppenmeier, U. et al. (2002). The genome of Methanosarcina mazei: evidence for lateral gene transfer between bacteria and archaea. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 4(4):453-461.
• Zinder S.H. et al. (1985). Methanosarcina thermophila sp. nov., a Thermophilic, Acetotrophic, Methane-Producing Bacterium. Int. J. Systematic Bacteriol. 35(4): 522–523.

Vernacular names