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  1. We may have found evidence for past #life on #Mars from an era, when subsurface brine could have supported #methanogens.

    But life requires liquid water, and it is largely nonexistent near the surface today. This global drying may have been caused by the microbial life itself.

    #astrobiology
    nature.com/articles/s41550-022

    Preprint available here:
    arxiv.org/abs/2210.04948

  2. The environmental conditions, energy sources and ecology of terrestrial #methanogens thriving in deep crystalline fractures, sub-sea hypersaline lakes and subglacial water bodies can be considered as analogs of a hypothetical habitable #Martian subsurface.

    Mars may have a 4.3-8.8 km-deep regolith habitat at the mid-latitude location of Acidalia Planitia, that might fit the requirements of Martian methanogens.

    #Mars #astrobiology
    astrobiology.com/2024/11/poten

  3. Potential #habitability of present-day #Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like #methanogens: arxiv.org/abs/2411.15064 -> "We [...] identify a 4.3-8.8 km-deep regolith habitat at the mid-latitude location of Acidalia Planitia, that might fit the requirements for hosting putative Martian methanogens analogous to the methanogenic families Methanosarcinaceae and Methanomicrobiaceae."

  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. 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."

  7. 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."

  8. 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."

  9. 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."

  10. 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."

  11. 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."

  12. 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."