Methylosphaera hansonii, also called Antarctic budding methanotroph AM6,[1] is a species of psychrophilic, group I methanotrophs, named after microbiologist Richard S. Hanson.[2] It is non-motile, coccoidal in morphology, does not form resting cells, reproduces by constriction, and requires seawater for growth. Its type strain is ACAM 549.
| Methylosphaera hansonii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Methylococcales |
| Family: | Methylococcaceae |
| Genus: | Methylosphaera |
| Species: | M. hansonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Methylosphaera hansonii J.P.Bowman et al. 1997
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The cells are round and 1.5–2.0 μm in diameter. They are Gram-negative, non-motile, and strictly aerobic. They use methane and methanol as substrates to produce energy, and they can fix atmospheric nitrogen.[3]
Nomenclature
editThe name has French and Greek roots. Methyl for its methyl group and sphaera for sphere. Overall the name means "methyl sphere."[3]
References
edit- ^ "Methylosphaera hansonii". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
Other names: synonym: Antarctic budding methanotroph AM6
- ^ Bowman, John P.; McCammon, S. A.; Skerrat, J. H. (1997). "Methylosphaera hansonii gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrophilic, group I methanotroph from Antarctic marine-salinity, meromictic lakes". Microbiology. 143 (4): 1451–1459. doi:10.1099/00221287-143-4-1451. ISSN 1350-0872. PMID 9141708.
- ^ a b David R. Boone; Richard W. Castenholz, eds. (2007-12-14). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 242. ISBN 978-0387280226. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
Further reading
edit- Schouten, S (2000). "Sterols in a psychrophilic methanotroph, Methylosphaera hansonii". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 186 (2): 193–195. doi:10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00142-7. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 10802170.
- Trotsenko, Yuri A.; Khmelenina, Valentina N. (June 1, 2005). "Aerobic methanotrophic bacteria of cold ecosystems". FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 53 (1): 15–26. doi:10.1016/j.femsec.2005.02.010. PMID 16329925.
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