Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria
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- 1 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 464 (7288), 543-548
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08883
Abstract
In certain microbes, the anaerobic oxidation of methane can be linked to the reduction of nitrates and nitrites. Here it is shown that this occurs through the intermediate production of oxygen. This brings the number of known biological pathways for oxygen production to four, with implications for our understanding of life on the early Earth.Keywords
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