Definição e significado de Methanopyrus

Methanopyrus
Methanopyrus kandleri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanopyri
Order:	Methanopyrales
Family:	Methanopyraceae
Genus:	Methanopyrus
Binomial name
Methanopyrus Kurr et al. 1992
Species
M. kandleri

In taxonomy, Methanopyrus is a genus of the Methanopyraceae.^[1]

Methanopyrus is a genus of methanogen, with a single described species, M. kandleri. It is a hyperthermophile, discovered on the wall of a black smoker from the Gulf of California at a depth of 2000 m, at temperatures of 84-110 °C. Strain 116 was discovered in black smoker fluid of the Kairei hydrothermal field; it can survive and reproduce at 122 °C.^[2] It lives in a hydrogen-carbon dioxide rich environment, and like other methanogens reduces the former to methane. It is placed among the Euryarchaeota, in its own class.

  References

  Further reading

  Scientific journals

• Kurr M, Huber R, Konig H, Jannasch HW, Fricke H, Trincone A, Kristjansson JK, Stetter KO (1991). "Methanopyrus kandleri, gen. and sp. nov. represents a novel group of hyperthermophilic methanogens, growing at 110°C". Arch. Microbiol. 156 (4): 239–247. DOI:10.1007/BF00262992. 

  Scientific books

• Huber R, Stetter KO (2001). "Family I. Methanopyralceae fam. nov.". In DR Boone and RW Castenholz, eds.. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2. 

  Scientific databases

• PubMed references for Methanopyrus
• PubMed Central references for Methanopyrus
• Google Scholar references for Methanopyrus

  External links

• NCBI taxonomy page for Methanopyrus
• Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Methanopyrus
• Search Species2000 page for Methanopyrus
• MicrobeWiki page for Methanopyrus
• LSPN page for Methanopyrus

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