Methanomicrobiales

Methanomicrobiales
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Methanomicrobia
Order:	Methanomicrobiales
Binomial name
Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981
Families
Methanocalculus Ollivier et al. 1998 Methanolinea Imachi et al. 2008 Methanoregula Bräuer et al. 2011 Methanocorpusculaceae Methanocorpusculum Zellner et al. 1988 emend. Xun et al. 1989 Methanospirillaceae Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 emend. Iino et al. 2010 Methanomicrobiaceae Methanoculleus Maestrojuán et al. 1990 Methanofollis Zellner et al. 1999 Methanogenium Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Spring et al. 2005 Methanolacinia Zellner et al. 1990 Methanomicrobium Balch and Wolfe 1981 Methanoplanus Wildgruber et al. 1984 Methanosphaerula Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009

In the taxonomy of microorganisms, the Methanomicrobiales are an order of the Methanomicrobia. Methanomicrobiales are strictly carbon dioxide reducing methanogens, using hydrogen or formate as the reducing agent. As seen from the phylogenetic tree based on the 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project the family Methanomicrobiaceae is highly polyphyletic within the Methanomicrobiales.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.

Methanogenium ?M. cariaci Romesser et al. 1981 emend. Maestrojuán et al. 1990 (type sp.) ?M. frigidum Franzmann et al. 1997 M. marinum Chong et al. 2003 M. organophilum Widdel et al. 1989 Methanoplanus M. endosymbiosus van Bruggen et al. 1986 M. limicola Wildgruber et al. 1984 (type sp.) Methanomicrobium mobile (Paynter and Hungate 1968) Balch and Wolfe 1981 Methanoplanus petrolearius Ollivier et al. 1998 Methanolacinia paynteri (Rivard et al. 1984) Zellner et al. 1990 Methanoculleus M. receptaculi Cheng et al. 2008 M. palmolei Zellner et al. 1998 M. chikugoensis Dianou et al. 2001 M. marisnigri (Romesser et al. 1981) Maestrojuán et al. 1990 M. submarinus Mikucki et al. 2003 M. bourgensis (Ollivier et al. 1986) Maestrojuán et al. 1990 emend. Asakawa and Nagaoka 2003 (type sp.) M. hydrogenitrophicus Tian et al. 2010 M. thermophilus (Rivard and Smith 1982) Maestrojuán et al. 1990 emend. Spring et al. 2005 Methanosphaerula palustris Cadillo-Quiroz et al. 2009 Methanolinea tarda Imachi et al. 2008 Methanospirillum M. hungatei Ferry et al. 1974 emend. Iino et al. 2010 M. lacunae Iino et al. 2010 Methanoregula M. boonei Bräuer et al. 2011 (type sp.) M. formicica Yashiro et al. 2011 Methanofollis M. formosanus Wu et al. 2005 M. aquaemaris Lai and Chen 2001 M. ethanolicus Imachi et al. 2009 M. liminatans (Zellner et al. 1990) Zellner et al. 1999 M. tationis (Zabel et al. 1986) Zellner et al. 1999 (type sp.) Methanocalculus M. pumilus Mori et al. 2000 M. taiwanensis Lai et al. 2002 M. chunghsingensis Lai et al. 2004 M. halotolerans Ollivier et al. 1998 (type sp.) Methanocorpusculum ?M. sinense Zellner et al. 1989 M. labreanum Zhao et al. 1989 M. bavaricum Zellner et al. 1989 M. parvum Zellner et al. 1988 (type sp.)

Notes:
♠ Strains found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)

Further reading

Scientific databases

• PubMed references for Methanomicrobiales
• PubMed Central references for Methanomicrobiales
• Google Scholar references for Methanomicrobiales

External links

• NCBI taxonomy page for Methanomicrobiales
• Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Methanomicrobiales
• Search Species2000 page for Methanomicrobiales
• MicrobeWiki page for Methanomicrobiales
• LSPN page for Methanomicrobiales

• See the NCBI webpage on Methanomicrobiales. Data extracted from the
• 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.