Journal article
A New Era of Methanogenesis Research.
- Lever MA Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: mark.lever@usys.ethz.ch.
- 2016-01-15
Published in:
- Trends in microbiology. - 2016
Archaea
Bathyarchaeota
methanogenesis
methylotrophy
microbial carbon cycling
reductive acetyl-CoA pathway
Euryarchaeota
Methane
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
English
The reductive acetyl-CoA pathway coupled to methanogenesis is likely one of Earth's oldest metabolisms. Yet, until recently this metabolism had only been found in the kingdom Euryarchaeota. A study now suggests that distantly related Bathyarchaeota are also methanogens and that methane metabolism is more phylogenetically widespread than previously thought.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.tim.2015.12.005
- PMID 26765541
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/267274
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