Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.116
Name
 Balch and Wolfe 1981
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
Members
(Smith and Hungate 1958) Balch and Wolfe 1981
Savant et al. 2002
corrig. Balch et al. 1981
Lee et al. 2013
Leadbetter and Breznak 1997
Leadbetter and Breznak 1997
Leadbetter et al. 1998
Miller and Lin 2002
Rea et al. 2007
Rea et al. 2007
Ferrari et al. 1995
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Miller and Lin 2002
Miller and Lin 2002
Miller and Lin 2002
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
  Balch and Wolfe 1981
  Barker 1956 emend. Balch and Wolfe 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
  Balch and Wolfe 1981

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.
Citation
When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.
Taxon Abstract for the genus Methanobrevibacter Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.116.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

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  3. Leadbetter JR, Breznak JA. Physiological ecology of Methanobrevibacter cuticularis sp. nov. and Mehanobrevibacter curvatus sp. nov., isolated from the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Appl Environ Microbiol 1996; 62:3620-3631.
  4. Rea S, Bowman JP, Popovski S, Pimm C, Wright AD. Methanobrevibacter millerae sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter olleyae sp. nov., methanogens from the ovine and bovine rumen that can utilize formate for growth. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:450-456. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63984-0 [PubMed].
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  6. Miller TL, Lin C. Description of Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter thaueri sp. nov., Methanobrevibacter woesei sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter wolinii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:819-822. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02022-0 [PubMed].
  7. Savant DV, Shouche YS, Prakash S, Ranade DR. Methanobrevibacter acididurans sp. nov., a novel methanogen from a sour anaerobic digester. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1081-1087. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.01903-0 [PubMed].
  8. Lee J-H, Kumar S, Lee G-H, Chang D-H, Rhee M-S, Yoon M-H, Kim B-C. Methanobrevibacter boviskoreani sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of Korean native cattle. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4196-4201. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.054056-0 [PubMed].
  9. No reference is available 2015