Methanobacteriales

Methanobacteriales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Methanobacteriati
Phylum: Methanobacteriota
Class: Methanobacteria
Order: Methanobacteriales
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Families

Methanobacteriales is an order of archaeans in the class Methanobacteria.[1] Species within this order differ from other methanogens in that they can use fewer catabolic substrates and have distinct morphological characteristics, lipid compositions, and RNA sequences.[2] Their cell walls are composed of pseudomurein. Most species are Gram-positive with rod-shaped bodies and some can form long filaments. Most of them use formate to reduce carbon dioxide, but those of the genus Methanosphaera use hydrogen to reduce methanol to methane.[2]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[3] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[1]

16S rRNA based LTP_06_2022[4][5][6] 53 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226[7][8][9]
"Methanothermobacteraceae_A"

"Methanothermobacter_A"

Methanothermobacteraceae

Methanothermobacter

Methanobacteriaceae

"Methanacia"

"Methanoflexus"

"Methanovirga"

"Methanorudis"

"Methanobaculum"

"Methanobinarius"

"Methanocatella"

"Methanarmilla"

Methanobrevibacter

See also

References

  1. 1 2 C.L. Schoch; et al. "Methanobacteriales". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  2. 1 2 Adam S. Bonin; David R. Boone (1979). "The Order Methanobacteriales". The Prokaryotes. 3. Springer: 231–243. doi:10.1007/0-387-30743-5_11. ISBN 978-0-387-30743-5.
  3. Methanobacteriales in LPSN; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Peinado-Olarte, Rosa L.; Göker, Markus (7 January 2022). "TYGS and LPSN: a database tandem for fast and reliable genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes". Nucleic Acids Research. 50 (D1): D801 – D807. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab902.
  4. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  5. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  6. "LTP_06_2022 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  7. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  8. "ar53_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  9. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.

Further reading

Scientific journals

Scientific books

  • Boone, DR (2001). "Class I. Methanobacteria class. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
  • Murray, RGE (1984). "The higher taxa, or, a place for everything...". In NR Krieg; JG Holt (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co. pp. 31–34.