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Genome Sequences of Two Choline-Utilizing Methanogenic Archaea, Methanococcoides spp., Isolated from Marine Sediments.

ABSTRACT: The genomes of two Methanococcoides spp. that were isolated from marine sediments and are capable of carrying out methanogenesis from choline and other methylotrophic substrates were sequenced. The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA-DNA hybridization analyses demonstrate that they represent species different from those previously described.

SUBMITTER: Webster G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498239 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome Sequences of Two Choline-Utilizing Methanogenic Archaea, Methanococcoides spp., Isolated from Marine Sediments.

Webster Gordon G Mullins Alex J AJ Watkins Andrew J AJ Cunningham-Oakes Edward E Weightman Andrew J AJ Mahenthiralingam Eshwar E Sass Henrik H

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The genomes of two Methanococcoides spp. that were isolated from marine sediments and are capable of carrying out methanogenesis from choline and other methylotrophic substrates were sequenced. The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA-DNA hybridization analyses demonstrate that they represent species different from those previously described. ...[more]

PMID: 31048384

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Genome Sequences of Two Choline-Utilizing Methanogenic Archaea, Methanococcoides spp., Isolated from Marine Sediments.

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Genome Sequences of Two Choline-Utilizing Methanogenic Archaea, <i>Methanococcoides</i> spp., Isolated from Marine Sediments.

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