Methanotrophic bacteria represent a potential route to methane utilization and mitigation of
methane emissions. In the first step of their metabolic pathway, aerobic methanotrophs use …

Methane has profound impact on the physico-chemical properties in atmosphere leading to
global climate change. Out of the various sources of CH4, rice fields are the most significant …

Life evolved and flourished in the absence of molecular oxygen (02). As the 02 content of
the atmosphere rose to the present level of 21% beginning about two billion years ago …

The 16S rRNA and pmoA genes from natural populations of methane-oxidizing bacteria
(methanotrophs) were PCR amplified from total community DNA extracted from Lake …

Samples from diverse upland soils that oxidize atmospheric methane were characterized
with regard to methane oxidation activity and the community composition of methanotrophic …

Methanotrophs are a group of bacteria possessing a highly specialized metabolism
restricted to the utilization of methane and methanol and are a subset of the methylotrophs …

Background The planktonic bacterial community associated with spring phytoplankton
blooms in the North Sea is responsible for a large amount of carbon turnover in an …

Movile Cave is an unusual groundwater ecosystem that is supported by in situ
chemoautotrophic production. The cave atmosphere contains 1–2% methane (CH4) …

Rice field soil with a nonsaturated water content induced CH4 consumption activity when it
was supplemented with 5% CH4. After a lag phase of 3 days, CH4 was consumed rapidly …

Three particulate methane monooxygenase PCR primer sets (A189-A682, A189-A650, and
A189-mb661) were investigated for their ability to assess methanotroph diversity in soils …