Anaerobic Degradation of Non-Methane Alkanes by “<italic toggle="yes">Candidatus</italic> Methanoliparia” in Hydrocarbon Seeps of the Gulf of Mexico

Anaerobic Degradation of Non-Methane Alkanes by “<italic toggle="yes">Candidatus</italic> Methanoliparia” in Hydrocarbon Seeps of the Gulf of Mexico

ABSTRACT Crude oil and gases in the seabed provide an important energy source for subsurface microorganisms. We investigated the role of archaea in the anaerobic degradation of non-methane alkanes in deep-sea oil seeps from the Gulf of Mexico. We identified microscopically the ethane and short-chain...

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Main Authors: Rafael Laso-Pérez, Cedric Hahn, Daan M. van Vliet, Halina E. Tegetmeyer, Florence Schubotz, Nadine T. Smit, Thomas Pape, Heiko Sahling, Gerhard Bohrmann, Antje Boetius, Katrin Knittel, Gunter Wegener
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-08-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
alkane degradation
archaea
methanogenesis
methyl-coenzyme M reductase
oil seeps
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01814-19

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01814-19

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