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Molecular Ecology Techniques for the Study of Aerobic Methanotrophs

Year: 2007

Type: review

Abstract: 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand 2Department of Bioresources/Microbiology, ARC Siebersdorf Research GmbH, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria 3Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England Methane oxidation can occur in both aerobic and anaerobic environments; however, these are completely different processes involving different groups of prokaryotes. Aerobic methane oxidation is carried out by aerobic methanotrophs, and anaerobic methane oxidizers, discovered recently, thrive under anaerobic conditions and use sulfate or nitrate as electron donors for methane oxidation (11, 104). This review will focus on the aerobic oxidation of methane.

Source: Applied and Environmental Microbiology

DOI: 10.1128/aem.02233-07

Authors: Ian R. McDonald, Levente Bodrossy, Yin Chen, J. Colin Murrell

Institutions: University of Waikato, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf Laboratories (Austria), ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH, University of Warwick

Language: English

Topic: Microbial metabolism and enzyme function

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Natural Environment Research Council

Award: Facultative methanotrophs and environmental regulation of methane oxidation