Name: Methylocystis heyeri Dedysh et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hey.e’ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. heyeri, of Heyer, named in honour of the German microbiologist Jürgen Heyer, for his highly enthusiastic research on methanotrophic bacteria and his contributions to increasing our knowledge on methanotroph diversity and ecology

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 16984; H2; VKM B-2426

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16S rRNA gene: AM283543 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Dedysh SN, Belova SE, Bodelier PL, Smirnova KV, Khmelenina VN, Chidthaisong A, Trotsenko YA, Liesack W, Dunfield PF. Methylocystis heyeri sp. nov., a novel type II methanotrophic bacterium possessing 'signature' fatty acids of type I methanotrophs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:472-479.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1173-1174.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Methylocystis (ex Whittenbury et al. 1970) Bowman et al. 1993

Assigned by: Dedysh SN, Belova SE, Bodelier PL, Smirnova KV, Khmelenina VN, Chidthaisong A, Trotsenko YA, Liesack W, Dunfield PF. Methylocystis heyeri sp. nov., a novel type II methanotrophic bacterium possessing 'signature' fatty acids of type I methanotrophs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:472-479.

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Record number: 786043