Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium

¹ G. K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow region, 142292, Russia
² Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Box 331750, Seattle, WA 98195-1750, USA
³ S. N. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-let Oktyabrya 7/2, 117811, Moscow, Russia
⁴ Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Tsukuba Central 6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan
⁵ Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Box 331750, Seattle, WA 98195-1750, USA
⁶ Pushchino State University, Pushchino, Moscow region, 142290, Russia