Reverse methanogenesis: Testing the hypothesis with environmental genomics

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5689, 2004, Pages 1457-1462

  Hallam, Steven J ^a   Putnam, Nik ^b   Preston, Christina M ^a   Detter, John C ^b   Rokhsar, Daniel ^b   Richardson, Paul H ^b   DeLong, Edward F ^a,c  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC METHANE OXIDATION; ANOXI SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; REVERSE METHANOGENESIS;

CARBON; GENES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METABOLISM; METHANE; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CARBON; CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; DNA; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; METHANOGENESIS;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYPOTHESIS; METHANOGENESIS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHANE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PTERINS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEAWATER; SULFATES;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 4444370893     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1100025     Document Type: Article

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27. Special thanks to L. Christianson, P. Girguis, and V. Orphan at MBARI for technical assistance, and the pilots of the ROV Tiburon and the captain and crew of the R/V Western Flyer. We also thank S. Pitluck and the Joint Genome Institute staff for technical assistance, and W. Ussler and D. Graham, who provided insight and commentary. This study was supported by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, NSF grant MCB-0236541, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, and the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, under contract W-7405-ENG-48, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory contract DE-AC03-765F00098, and Los Alamos National Laboratory contract W-7405-ENG-36. Sequences have been submitted to GenBank under accession numbers AY714814 to AY714873. Additional data are available at www.jgi.doe.gov/aom.