Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1898

Name

Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Methylophilus methylotrophus Jenkins et al. 1987
species	Methylophilus aquaticus Kaparullina et al. 2020
species	Methylophilus flavus Gogleva et al. 2010
species	Methylophilus glucosoxydans Doronina et al. 2012
species	Methylophilus leisingerii (sic) Doronina and Trotsenko 2001
species	Methylophilus luteus Gogleva et al. 2010
species	Methylophilus medardicus Salcher et al. 2019
species	Methylophilus quaylei Doronina et al. 2017
species	Methylophilus rhizosphaerae Madhaiyan et al. 2009
species	Methylophilus sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
family Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1898.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1898.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Methylophilaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 770.
Gogleva AA, Kaparullina EN, Doronina NV, Trotsenko YA. Methylophilus flavus sp. nov. and Methylophilus luteus sp. nov., aerobic, methylotrophic bacteria associated with plants. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2623-2628. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.019455-0 [PubMed].
Doronina NV, Gogleva AA, Trotsenko YA. Methylophilus glucosoxydans sp. nov., a restricted facultative methylotroph from rice rhizosphere. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:196-201. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.024620-0 [PubMed].
Salcher MM, Schaefle D, Kaspar M, Neuenschwander SM, Ghai R. Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae. ISME J 2019; 13:2764-2777. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0471-3 [PubMed].
Doronina N, Ivanova E, Trotsenko Y, Pshenichnikova A, Kalinina E, Shvets V. Methylophilus quaylei sp. nov., a new aerobic obligately methylotrophic bacterium. Syst Appl Microbiol 2005; 28:303-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2005.02.002 [PubMed].
Madhaiyan M, Poonguzhali S, Kwon S-W, Sa T-M. Methylophilus rhizosphaerae sp. nov., a restricted facultative methylotroph isolated from rice rhizosphere soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2904-2908. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009811-0 [PubMed].
Jenkins O, Byrom D, Jones D. Methylophilus: a new genus of methanol-utilizing bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1987; 37:446-448. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-37-4-446.
Doronina NV, Trotsenko YD. Methylophilus leisingerii sp. nov., a new species of restricted facultatively methylotrophic bacteria. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1994; 63:529-536.
No reference is available 2015
Kaparullina EN, Agafonova NV, Trotsenko YA, Doronina NV. Methylophilus aquaticus sp. nov., a New Aerobic Methylotrophic Bacterium Isolated from a Freshwater Reservoir. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 2018; 87:672-680. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261718050119.