New paper out in Microbiology Spectrum: “Proteomic stress response by a novel methanogen enriched from the Great Salt Lake”, first author William Christian. We enriched a novel, euryarchaeotal, methyl-dismutating methanogen that grows at 16% salinity. 🦠 #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Methanogens are microbes that affect the climate through their production of the greenhouse
gas, methane. Changes in climate and land-use patterns are drying up saline lakes,
damaging their unique eco...
