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Methylocystaceae

Known as: alpha methylotroph group 1, alpha subdivision methylotrophs, alpha subdivision methylotroph group 1 
A family of gram-negative methanotrophs in the order Rhizobiales, distantly related to the nitrogen-fixing and phototrophic bacteria.
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Methylocystistype II methanotrophic bacterium
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2015
2015
High Throughput Sequencing to Detect Differences in Methanotrophic Methylococcaceae and Methylocystaceae in Surface Peat, Forest Soil, and Sphagnum Moss in Cranesville Swamp Preserve, West Virginia…
Northern temperate forest soils and Sphagnum-dominated peatlands are a major source and sink of methane. In these ecosystems… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Microbial community analysis of a methane-oxidizing biofilm using ribosomal tag pyrosequencing.
Current ecological knowledge of methanotrophic biofilms is incomplete, although they have been broadly studied in… 
2010
2010
Field application of nitrogen and phenylacetylene to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from landfill cover soils: effects on microbial community structure
Landfills are large sources of CH4, but a considerable amount of CH4 can be removed in situ by methanotrophs if their activity… 
2007
2007
Molecular identification of methane oxidizing bacteria in a Japanese rice field soil
By using cultivation-independent techniques, community changes of methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) in rice bulk soils were… 
2005
2005
Degradation of organic pollutants by methane grown microbial consortia
AbstractMicrobial consortia were enriched from various environmental samples with methane as the sole carbon and energy source… 
2004
2004
Molecular Analysis of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Aerobic Methanotrophs by Targeting Genes of 16S rRNA and Particulate Methane Monooxygenase
Molecular diversity of deep-sea hydrothermal vent aerobic methanotrophs was studied using both 16S ribosomalDNA and pmoA encoding… 
2003
2003
Amplification of Marine Methanotrophic Enrichment DNA with 16S rDNA PCR Primers for Type II α Proteobacteria Methanotrophs
Abstract Type II α proteobacteria methanotrophs are capable of a wide range of cometabolic transformations of chlorinated… 
2002
2002
Methanotrophic Communities in the Soils of the Russian Northern Taiga and Subarctic Tundra
The PCR analysis of DNA extracted from soil samples taken in the Russian northern taiga and subarctic tundra showed that the DNA… 
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2000
Highly Cited
2000
The biogeochemical controls of N2O production and emission in landfill cover soils: the role of methanotrophs in the nitrogen cycle.
Emissions of N2O from cover soils of both abandoned (> 30 years) and active landfills greatly exceed the maximum fluxes… 
1984
1984
Plasmids in methanotrophic bacteria: isolation, characterization and DNA hybridization analysis
Ten strains of obligate methanotrophs were screened for the presence of plasmid DNA using a variety of methods. Plasmids were… 
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