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Methanopyrus
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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. It lives in an hydrogen-carbon dioxide rich environment, and like other methanogens reduces the former to methane. It is placed among the Euryarchaeota, in its own class.
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- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanopyrus. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
- 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: 239–247.
- 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 978-0387987712.
- 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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