Methanococcoides vulcani (DSM 26966, JCM 19278, SLH 33)

Name: Methanococcoides vulcani (DSM 26966, JCM 19278, SLH 33)
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BacDive ID 24162

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 26966 JCM 19278 SLH 33

NCBI tax ID(s) 1353158

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- S. L'Haridon, IUEM, Univ. Brest, Plouzané, France; SLH33 S. L'Haridon SLH33.

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Methanococcoides vulcani DSM 26966 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from deep-sea sediment covered by an orange microbial mat, 1938 m depth.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399129

JCM 19278,DSM 26966

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:23:54

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanosarcinia

Order Methanosarcinales

Family Methanosarcinaceae

Genus Methanococcoides

Species Methanococcoides vulcani

Full scientific name Methanococcoides vulcani L'Haridon et al. 2014

Morphology

Colony morphology

21015

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21015	METHANOCOCCOIDES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 141c)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOCOCCOIDES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 141c) Composition: NaHCO3 4.89237 g/l Trimethylammonium chloride 4.89237 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 3.91389 g/l Yeast extract 1.95695 g/l Trypticase peptone 1.95695 g/l Na-acetate 0.978474 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.489237 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.489237 g/l KCl 0.332681 g/l NH4Cl 0.244618 g/l K2HPO4 0.136986 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0293542 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0146771 g/l NaCl 0.00978474 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00489237 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.00195695 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00176125 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00176125 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000978474 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000978474 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000489237 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000293542 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000195695 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.78474e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.78474e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.89237e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.89237e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.89237e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Biotin 1.95695e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.95695e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.91389e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.93542e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.78474e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
21015	positive	growth	25
67770	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

21015

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
21015	deep-sea sediment covered by an orange microbial mat, 1938 m depth	Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Napoli Mud Volcano	Greece	GRC	Europe	33.7239	24.684 33.7239/24.684
67770	Deep marine sediment, covered by a dense orange microbial mat, in Napoli Mud Volcano	eastern Mediterranean Sea

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21015	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	IMG-taxon 2642422537 annotated assembly for Methanococcoides vulcani SLH 33	scaffold	GCA_900111645	1353158.3	2642422537	1353158	75.16

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21015	Methanococcoides vulcani strain SLH33 from Mediterranean Sea 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC631821	1443		1353158

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
21015	43.4	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methanococcoides vulcani SLH 33
NCBI: GCA_900111645.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	61.80	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	83.51	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	92.19	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.52	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	85.99	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.10	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	The Prodigal Compound: Return of Ribosyl 1,5-Bisphosphate as an Important Player in Metabolism.	Hove-Jensen B, Brodersen DE, Manav MC.	Microbiol Mol Biol Rev	10.1128/mmbr.00040-18	2019
Phylogeny	Methanococcoides orientis sp. nov., a methylotrophic methanogen isolated from sediment of the East China Sea.	Liang L, Sun Y, Dong Y, Ahmad T, Chen Y, Wang J, Wang F	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005384	2022
Phylogeny	Methanococcoides vulcani sp. nov., a marine methylotrophic methanogen that uses betaine, choline and N,N-dimethylethanolamine for methanogenesis, isolated from a mud volcano, and emended description of the genus Methanococcoides.	L'Haridon S, Chalopin M, Colombo D, Toffin L	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.058289-0	2014

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 )
#21015	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26966
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Methanococcoides vulcani (DSM 26966, JCM 19278, SLH 33)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900111645

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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