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Methanomethylovorans hollandica is a species of methylotrophic methanogen able to grow on dimethyl sulfide and methanethiol. It is the type species of its genus. It is obligately anaerobic. It was the first strictly anaerobic archeaon isolated from freshwater sediments in which dimethyl sulfide is the sole source of carbon. It is not a halophile. It can use methyl compounds as substrates, but it cannot use carbon dioxide or acetate. Because dimethyl sulfide has implications with respect to global warming, this organism may be of considerable importance.

References

1. ^ Lomans BP, Maas R, Luderer R, et al. (August 1999). "Isolation and characterization of Methanomethylovorans hollandica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from freshwater sediment, a methylotrophic methanogen able to grow on dimethyl sulfide and methanethiol". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 65 (8): 3641–50. Bibcode:1999ApEnM..65.3641L. doi:10.1128/AEM.65.8.3641-3650.1999. PMC 91546. PMID 10427061.

Further reading

• Sneath, Peter HA (2011). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 3. Williams & Wilkins.

External links

• "Methanomethylovorans hollandica". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• LPSN
• Type strain of Methanomethylovorans hollandica at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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