Molecular probing of deep secrets

Roger Summons ()
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Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6730, 752-753

Abstract: Techniques used by molecular biologists and geochemists have been combined to uncover a new type of microbe that lives off a diet of methane gas seeping from marine sediments. Although no organism that can consume methane anaerobically has ever been identified, circumstantial evidence indicates that such a microbe -- genetically related to methane-producing bacteria -- is lurking in deep marine sediments.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/19630

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