Now published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications:
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Abstract. Methanogens are strictly anaerobic archaea capable of energy conservation by methane production, yet their presence in oxic and arid environments
📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts.
With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other