Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.144
Name
 Balch and Wolfe 1981
Taxonomic Rank
order
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Boone 2002
Members
Rissanen et al. 2018
Whitman et al. 2002
Balch and Wolfe 1981
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this order within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  Boone 2002
  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 order Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.144.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 8, 2019.

References

  1. Whitman WB, Boone DR, Koga Y. Family II. Methanocaldococcaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 242-243.
  2. Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woese CR, Wolfe RS. Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group. Microbiol Rev 1979; 43:260-296. [PubMed].
  3. Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-1-7 [PubMed].
  4. Rissanen AJ, Saarenheimo J, Tiirola M, Peura S, Aalto SL, Karvinen A, Nykänen H. Gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs dominate methanotrophy in aerobic and anaerobic layers of boreal lake waters. Aquat Microb Ecol 2018; 81:257-276. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01874.