Methanococcus voltae (DSM 14649, OCM 745, P2F9701a)

Name: Methanococcus voltae (DSM 14649, OCM 745, P2F9701a)
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BacDive ID 6999

Type strain

Strain Designation P2F9701a

Culture col. no. DSM 14649 OCM 745 P2F9701a

NCBI tax ID(s) 2188

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- M.-C. Lai, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan; P2F9701a <- M.-C. Lai {1996}

Links

Methanococcus voltae P2F9701a is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from water sample.

anaerobe genome sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 113544

DSM 14649

@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
6998	M. voltae DSM 7078, MCM B603
161888	M. voltae JCM 16865, OCM 197

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	98.253

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5463	METHANOCALCULUS MB MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 924)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOCALCULUS MB MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 924; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: Na-formate 6.72601 g/l NaHCO3 3.95648 g/l Yeast extract 1.97824 g/l Trypticase peptone 1.97824 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.98912 g/l NH4Cl 0.98912 g/l KCl 0.49456 g/l K2HPO4 0.395648 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.24728 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.24728 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0296736 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148368 g/l NaCl 0.0098912 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.0049456 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178042 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00178042 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.00098912 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00098912 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.00049456 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000296736 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000197824 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.8912e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.8912e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.8912e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.8912e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.9456e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.9456e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.9456e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.9456e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.97824e-05 g/l Biotin 1.97824e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.95648e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.96736e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.8912e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5463	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
5463	anaerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	97.5

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.641

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5463	water sample	Erlin Shi estuary environment	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5463	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	ASM1787539v1 assembly for Methanococcus voltae DSM 14649	contig	GCA_017875395	2188.3	2917941020	2188	76.1

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM1787539v1 assembly for Methanococcus voltae DSM 14649
NCBI: GCA_017875395

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	97.50	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.25	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	70.94	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.64	no

Literature

References

#5463	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14649
#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) .
#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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