home.social

#methanogens — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #methanogens, aggregated by home.social.

  1. How #microbes extract important #metals from their environment
    phys.org/news/2023-10-ancient-

    #Methanogens acquire and bioaccumulate #nickel during reductive dissolution of nickelian #pyrite: Rachel Spietz et al. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/a

    "These findings help differentiate between two competing hypotheses about the reduction in atmospheric #methane billions of years ago that was likely caused by a reduction in the #methanogen population."

  2. The Genetics Of Temperature Adaptation: How Does Life Thrive In Extreme Conditions? astrobiology.com/2023/03/the-g

    The #methanogen core & #pangenome: conservation and variability across biology’s growth temperature extremes academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/a

    "#Methanogens can thrive across a range of temperature extremes, from -2.5 to 122 °C, making them ideal candidates to study temperature adaptation... Thermotolerant organisms had smaller genomes and a higher fraction of core genome."