SCIENCE CHINA Psychrotolerant methanogenic archaea: Diversity and cold adaptation mechanisms

• Main Authors: Dong Xiuzhu, Chen Zijuan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Ace Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1048.4160; http://www.im.ac.cn/UserFiles/File/2012/2012-10/Publication%20version-review%20on%20psychrophilic%20methanogen.pdf

Because of their diversity and abundance in a wide range of environments, particularly in cold regions, cold-adaptive archaea are expected to play a pivotal role in material recycling in cold environments. Methanogenic archaea are ubiquitous on earth and produce a large amount of methane (CH 4 ) as...