Methanococcus voltae (DSM 7078, MCM B603)

Name: Methanococcus voltae (DSM 7078, MCM B603)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 6998

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 7078 MCM B603

NCBI tax ID(s) 2188

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- D.R. Ranade, MCM B603 <- P.C. Kadam

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Methanococcus voltae DSM 7078 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from sea sediment.

anaerobe genome sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48358

DSM 7078

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:32

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanococci

Order Methanococcales

Family Methanococcaceae

Genus Methanococcus

Species Methanococcus voltae

Full scientific name Methanococcus voltae Balch and Wolfe 1981

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanococcus voltae** (6)	Type strain
6994	M. voltae PS, DSM 1537, ATCC 33273, OCM 70 (type strain)
6995	M. voltae PS-3, DSM 4254
6996	M. voltae PS-6, DSM 4310
6997	M. voltae PS-7, DSM 4311
6999	M. voltae P2F9701a, DSM 14649, OCM 745
161888	M. voltae JCM 16865, OCM 197

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.439

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
2976	METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141) Composition: NaHCO3 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 FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000978474 g/l CaCl2 x 2 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 Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.78474e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.89237e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.89237e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.89237e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.95695e-05 g/l Biotin 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)
2976	positive	growth	35

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
2976	anaerobe
125439	facultative anaerobe	92.998

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.351

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
2976	sea sediment	Maharashtra, Arabian Sea	India	IND	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
2976	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1420329v1 assembly for Methanococcus maripaludis DSM 7078	scaffold	GCA_014203295	39152.20	2862991205	39152	75.39

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM1420329v1 assembly for Methanococcus maripaludis DSM 7078
NCBI: GCA_014203295

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	93.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.44	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	84.01	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.35	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methanococcus maripaludis DSM 7078
NCBI: GCA_014203295.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	62.39	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	88.85	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	87.68	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.57	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	69.93	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	82.38	no

Literature

References

#2976	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 7078
#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 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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