Anaerobic Degradation of Alkanes by Marine Archaea

• Published in: Annual Review of Microbiology
• Main Authors: Wegener, Gunter, Laso-Pérez, Rafael, Orphan, Victoria J., Boetius, Antje
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Annual Reviews 2022
• Subjects: archaea; alkanes; methyl coenzyme M reductase; anaerobic metabolism; microbial consortia; syntrophy; Microbiology; Chadwick; Alfred Wegener Institute
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-111021-045911

Alkanes are saturated apolar hydrocarbons that range from their simplest form, methane, to high-molecular-weight compounds. Although alkanes were once considered biologically recalcitrant under anaerobic conditions, microbiological investigations have now identified several microbial taxa that can a...