Methanobrevibacter woesei Miller & Lin, 2002
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Euryarchaeota
- phylum
- Euryarchaeota
- class
- Methanobacteria
- order
- Methanobacteriales
- family
- Methanobacteriaceae
- genus
- Methanobrevibacter
- species
- Methanobrevibacter woesei
Abstract
Methanobrevibacter woesei is a species of methanogen archaeon, named after Carl R. Woese.
Description
Coccobacillus with slightly tapered ends, about 0.6 micrometres in width and 1 micrometre in length, occurring in pairs or short chains. Gram-positive reaction. Its cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is GST(=DSM 11979T =OCM 815T). It was first isolated from goose faeces.