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The Family Methanocellaceae

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Methanocellaceae is a family within the order Methanocellales Sakai et al. (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:929–936, 2008). This order and family contains a single genus Methanocella. Hitherto three species within the genus Methanocella have been reported Sakai et al. (Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:929–936, 2008; Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60:2918-2923, 2010), Lü and Lu (PLoS ONE 7: e35279, 2012a); all the reported species were isolated from rice field soil. Cells are nonmotile, irregular rods and anaerobic; energy metabolism is by reduction of CO2 to CH4 with H2 as an electron donor; some species can also use formate as an electron donor.

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  1. Subsurface Geobiology & Advanced Research (SUGAR) Project, Extremobiosphere Research Program, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC), 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan

    Sanae Sakai & Hiroyuki Imachi

  2. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

    Ralf Conrad

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

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Sakai, S., Conrad, R., Imachi, H. (2014). The Family Methanocellaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_318

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