Name: Methanosarcina mazei Equi
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7104

Type strain:

Species: Methanosarcina mazei

Strain Designation: Equi

Culture col. no.: DSM 7058, OCM 61

Strain history: <- OCM <- J. A. G. F. Menaia; Equi {1988}

NCBI tax ID(s): 2209 (species)

SI-ID 48352

DSM 7058

Special Collections

DSMZ

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Section

Methanosarcina mazei Equi is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from horse caecum.

anaerobe
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*
	Species	**Methanosarcina mazei**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanosarcina mazei corrig. (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984

	Synonym	Methanosarcina frisia
	Synonym	Methanococcus frisius
	Synonym	Methanosarcina mazeii
	Synonym	Methanococcus mazei

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHANOSARCINA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 120)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #2964]			growth	37 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #2964]	Sample type/isolated from	horse caecum
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Mammals	#Equidae (Horse)
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Large intestine

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 7058, OCM 61

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SI-ID 48352

References

#2964

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 7058

#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 )

#76559

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-ID48352.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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