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Carbonate-hosted microbial communities are prolific and pervasive methane oxidizers at geologically diverse marine methane seep sites
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2021
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (25)Series: NA067, NA073, NA084 -
Journal Title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Description:At marine methane seeps, vast quantities of methane move through the shallow subseafloor, where it is largely consumed by microbial communities. This process plays an important role in global methane dynamics, but we have yet to identify all of the methane sinks in the deep sea. Here, we conducted a continental-scale survey of seven geologically diverse seafloor seeps and found that carbonate rocks from all sites host methane-oxidizing microbial communities with substantial methanotrophic potential.
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Source:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (25)
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND
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