Name: Methanosarcina sp. AK-6
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 130396

Type strain:

Species: Methanosarcina sp.

Strain Designation: AK-6

Culture col. no.: DSM 17370, OCM 805

Strain history: <- M. Kendall, Portland State Univ., USA; AK-6 <- Y. Liu {2000}

NCBI tax ID(s): 2213 (species)

SI-ID 396987

DSM 17370

Special Collections

DSMZ

Other strains from Methanosarcina sp.

Section

Methanosarcina sp. AK-6 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe
16S sequence
Archaea

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	"Methanomicrobia"
	Order	*Methanosarcinales*
	Family	*Methanosarcinaceae*
	Genus	*Methanosarcina*
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #21922]

Incubation period

2-3 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #21922]

Culture medium

METHANOCOCCOIDES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 141c)

[Ref.: #21922]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #21922]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #21922]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #21922]			growth	35 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #21922]

Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #21922]	Sample type/isolated from	marine sediment
[Ref.: #21922]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Alaska, Skan Bay
[Ref.: #21922]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #21922]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #21922]	Continent	North America
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

What are isolation sources categories?

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #21922]	Methanosarcina sp. AK-6 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ250385	1395	GenBank ENA	357353 tax ID

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #21922]

Culture collection no.

DSM 17370, OCM 805

[Ref.: #88928]

SI-ID 396987

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

#21922

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17370

#88928

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID396987.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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