Methanobrevibacter thaueri is a species of
methanogen
Methanogens are anaerobic archaea that produce methane as a byproduct of their energy metabolism, i.e., catabolism. Methane production, or methanogenesis, is the only biochemical pathway for Adenosine triphosphate, ATP generation in methanogens. A ...
archaeon
Archaea ( ) is a domain of organisms. Traditionally, Archaea only included its prokaryotic members, but this has since been found to be paraphyletic, as eukaryotes are known to have evolved from archaea. Even though the domain Archaea cladis ...
, named after Rolf K. Thauer.
Description
Coccobacillus
Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...
with slightly tapered ends, about 0.5
micrometre
The micrometre (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American English), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron, is a uni ...
s in width and 0.6-1.2 micrometres in length, occurring in pairs or short chains.
Gram-positive
In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall.
The Gram stain is ...
reaction. Its cell walls are composed of
pseudomurein
Pseudopeptidoglycan (also known as pseudomurein;White, David. (1995) ''The Physiology and Biochemistry of Prokaryotes'', pages 6, 12-21. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). . PPG hereafter) is a major cell wall component of some Archaea that differs ...
. It is a strict anaerobe and its type strain is CW
T (=DSM 11995
T =OCM 817
T). It was first isolated from cow faeces.
References
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External links
LPSN*
Type strain of ''Methanobrevibacter thaueri'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Euryarchaeota
Archaea described in 2002
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