Methanococci
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Methanobacteriota
Class:	Methanococcia Boone 2002
Order
Methanococcales
Synonyms
"Methanococcia"Oren, Parte & Garrity 2016 MethanothermeaCavalier-Smith 2002

Methanococci is aclass of methanogenic archaea in the phylumEuryarchaeota.^[1] They can bemesophilic,thermophilic orhyperthermophilic.

• List of Archaea genera

• Cavalier-Smith, T (2002)."The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification".Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.52 (Pt 1):7–76.doi:10.1099/00207713-52-1-7.PMID 11837318.
• Woese, CR; Kandler O; Wheelis ML (1990)."Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya".Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.87 (12):4576–4579.Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.4576W.doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576.PMC 54159.PMID 2112744.
• Liu, Yuchen; White, Robert H.; Whitman, William B. (July 2010)."Methanococci Use the Diaminopimelate Aminotransferase (DapL) Pathway for Lysine Biosynthesis".Journal of Bacteriology.192 (13):3304–3310.doi:10.1128/JB.00172-10.PMC 2897669.PMID 20418392.

• Boone, DR (2001)."Class I. Methanococci class. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.).Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York:Springer Verlag. pp. 169.ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.
• Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001)."Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov.". In DR Boone; RW Castenholz (eds.).Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 169.ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.

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