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Methanosalsum

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In taxonomy, Methanosalsum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanosarcinaceae.^[1] This genus contains two species.

Methanosalsum zhilinae was isolated from the saline and alkaline sediments of Wadi Natrun in Egypt and from Lake Magadi. It is moderately halophilic.^[2]^[3]

Methanosalsum natronophilum (natronophilum means soda-loving) was isolated from hypersaline soda lakes.^[4]

^ See the NCBI webpage on Methanosalsum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ Koki Horikoshi; Garabed Antranikian; Alan T. Bull; Frank T. Robb; Karl O. Stetter, eds. (2010-12-08). Extremophiles Handbook. Springer Science and Business Media. p. 260. ISBN 978-4431538974.
^ Stanley Falkow; Eugene Rosenberg; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; Erko Stackebrandt, eds. (2006-10-10). The Prokaryotes. Vol. 3. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 246. ISBN 0387254935. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
^ Sorokin, Dimitry Y.; Abbas, Ben; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Merkel, Alexander Y.; Sukhacheva, Marina V.; Rijpstra, W. Irene C.; van Loosdrecht, Mark C. M. (2015). "Methanosalsum natronophilum sp. nov., and Methanocalculus alkaliphilus sp. nov., haloalkaliphilic methanogens from hypersaline soda lakes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (10): 3739–3745. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000488. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 26228570.

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In taxonomy, Methanosalsum is a genus of microbes within the family Methanosarcinaceae. This genus contains two species.

Methanosalsum zhilinae was isolated from the saline and alkaline sediments of Wadi Natrun in Egypt and from Lake Magadi. It is moderately halophilic.

Methanosalsum natronophilum (natronophilum means soda-loving) was isolated from hypersaline soda lakes.