Abstract
The family Methanothermaceae currently consists of a single genus Methanothermus with two species: Methanothermus fervidus and Methanothermus sociabilis. Both were isolated from terrestrial solfatara fields in Iceland, and they may be endemic to that area. They are rod-shaped nonmotile chemolithoautotrophs that grow only on H 2 /CO 2 as substrate for methanogenesis, and they grow optimally at 83-88 °C and up to 97 °C. The family is affiliated with the order Methanobacteriales.
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Oren, A. (2014). The family methanothermaceae. In The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea (pp. 291–295). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_3
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