AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ultrasmall bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified the strain ...

Methanobrevibacter smithii is a methanogenic archaeon, and it is one of the bacteria responsible for the intestinal production of CH 4 from CO 2 1, the overall pathway involving a number of methanogen ...

A study led by microbiologists at TU Dresden shows that methanogenic archaea do not always need to form methane to survive. It is possible to bypass methanogenesis with the seemingly simpler and more ...

Pyrite (FeS 2) is the most abundant iron-sulfur mineral in the seabed. A strong thermodynamic and kinetic drive makes pyrite the main terminal product of reduced iron and sulfur transformations under ...