Advanced genetic techniques and #microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate and methanogen #symbiosis https://phys.org/news/2024-10-advanced-genetic-techniques-microscopy-insights.html

Methanogenic #symbionts of anaerobic #ciliates are host and habitat specific https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/18/1/wrae164/7737421 #ISEPpapers by @joro

"This study provides a clearer understanding of how anaerobic ciliates have evolved a mix transmission mode to both maintain and replace their symbionts over time"

#microbes #protists #bacteria #archaea #methanogenesis #biology

#Scientists publish first experimental evidence for new groups of #methane-producing organisms https://phys.org/news/2024-07-scientists-publish-experimental-evidence-groups.html #archaea #microbes

Cultivation and visualization of a methanogen of the phylum #Thermoproteota https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07631-6

Methyl-reducing #methanogenesis by a thermophilic culture of #Korarchaeia https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07829-8

Isolation of a methyl-reducing methanogen outside the #Euryarchaeota https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07728-y

Learn about the unusual architecture & unique coupling principle of B12-dependent #methyltransferase complex of #methanogenesis in this paper in #PNAS co-authored by our group leader Tristan Wagner.
A great #MaxPlanck-cooperation!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

https://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Max-Planck-Research-Group-Microbial-Metabolism.html

Picture from the publication #PNAS

#Scientists unravel #symbiotic secrets of #prokaryotic community living in host #amoeba https://phys.org/news/2023-08-scientists-unravel-symbiotic-secrets-prokaryotic.html

#SciComm about new #ISEPpapers:

Hydrogenotrophic #methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the #anaerobic ameba #Pelomyxa schiedti https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-023-01499-6 #protists #bacteria #microbes #symbiosis #amoebae #archaea #symbiosis #genomics

Ancient lake #microbes caused global warming during ice age
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-ancient-lake-microbes-global-ice.html

Effects on #GlobalWarming by microbial #methanogenesis in #AlkalineLakes during the Late #Paleozoic #IceAge https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G51286.1/627322/Effects-on-global-warming-by-microbial

"Global warming has occurred numerous times over Earth's history, with one such event happening 304 million years ago during the #LatePaleozoicIceAge. Studies have discovered increased sea surface temperature, ice decline and oceanic environments flooding the land at the time."

Whale Fall https://hackeroo.co/425558

#Osedax #Methanogenesis #Science #Nature #Osteopelta #Bibcode