High concentrations of dissolved biogenic methane associated with cyanobacterial blooms in East African lake surface water

Fazi et al. report on an extraordinarily high biogenic methane concentration detected in the surface water of Lake Sonachi, Kenya. Using gas chromatography and microbiome profiling, they determine that these high concentrations are associated with cyanobacterial blooms and help provide insight to me...

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Main Authors: Stefano Fazi, Stefano Amalfitano, Stefania Venturi, Nic Pacini, Eusebi Vazquez, Lydia A. Olaka, Franco Tassi, Simona Crognale, Peter Herzsprung, Oliver J. Lechtenfeld, Jacopo Cabassi, Francesco Capecchiacci, Simona Rossetti, Michail M. Yakimov, Orlando Vaselli, David M. Harper, Andrea Butturini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-07-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02365-x