A microbe that uses crude oil to make methane

Guillaume Borrel (1)

1 Biologie Évolutive de la Cellule Microbienne - Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell

A microorganism that dwells in an underground oil reservoir has been found to degrade various petroleum compounds and use them to produce methane through a previously unreported biochemical pathway.

Keywords: Biochemistry; Biogeochemistry; Metabolism; Microbiology

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Environmental Sciences

Guillaume Borrel. A microbe that uses crude oil to make methane. Nature, 2022, 601 (7892), pp.196-197. ⟨10.1038/d41586-021-03729-3⟩. ⟨pasteur-04075884⟩