Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19321-19326

  Kellermann, Matthias Y ^a,d   Wegener, Gunter ^b,c   Elvert, Marcus ^a   Yoshinaga, Marcos Yukio ^a   Lin, Yu Shih ^a   Holler, Thomas ^c   Mollar, Xavier Prieto ^a   Knittel, Katrin ^c   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetyl CoA pathway; Biomarker; Methanotrophy; Syntrophy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; CARBON 13; LIPID; METHANE; WATER;

ANAEROBIC METHANE OXIDIZING ARCHAEON 1; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; LIPOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFATE REDUCING ARCHAEON;

ANAEROBIOSIS; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; BIOTA; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIPID METABOLISM; METHANE; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84869754827     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208795109     Document Type: Article

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