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<p><span style="color: #000000">In </span><span style="color: #000000">taxonomy</span><span style="color: #000000">, <i><b>Methanocaldococcus</b></i> is a </span><span style="color: #000000">genus</span><span style="color: #000000"> of the </span><span style="color: #000000">Methanocaldococcaceae</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><span style="color: #000000"><font size="2">[1]</font></span></sup></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000"><i><b>Methanocaldococcus</b></i> formerly known as <i><b>Methanococcus</b></i> is a genus of </span><span style="color: #000000">coccoid</span><span style="color: #000000">methanogens</span><span style="color: #000000">. They are all </span><span style="color: #000000">mesophiles</span><span style="color: #000000">, except the </span><span style="color: #000000">thermophilic</span><span style="color: #000000"> <i>M. thermolithotrophicus</i> and the </span><span style="color: #000000">hyperthermophilic</span><span style="color: #000000"> <i>M. jannaschii</i>. The latter was discovered at the base of a “white smoker” chimney at 21°</span><span style="color: #000000">N</span><span style="color: #000000"> on the </span><span style="color: #000000">East Pacific Rise</span><span style="color: #000000"><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><font size="2">[2]</font></sup> and it was the first </span><span style="color: #000000">archaean</span><span style="color: #000000">genome</span><span style="color: #000000"> to be completely sequenced, revealing many novel and </span><span style="color: #000000">eukaryote</span><span style="color: #000000">-like elements.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><span style="color: #000000"><font size="2">[3]</font></span></sup></p>
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<li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&term=Methanocaldococcus" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">PubMed references for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pmc&term=Methanocaldococcus" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">PubMed Central references for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Methanocaldococcus" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Google Scholar references for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=196118" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">NCBI taxonomy page for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/searchTOL?taxon=Methanocaldococcus&Submit2=Find" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2006/search_results.php?search_string=Methanocaldococcus&match_whole_words=on" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Search Species2000 page for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Special:Search?search=Methanocaldococcus&go=Go" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">MicrobeWiki page for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/m/methanocaldococcus.html" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">LSPN page for Methanocaldococcus</font></a></span></li> <li><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://archaea.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=methJann1" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3366bb">Information on type species 'Methanocaldococcus jannaschii'</font></a></li>
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