Methylotrophic methanogens everywhere — physiology and ecology of novel players in global methane cycling

Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea

(2019) Guillaume Borrel et al.   Nature Microbiology

Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota

(2019) Luke J. McKay et al.   Nature Microbiology

Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens

(2019) Bojk A. Berghuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asgard archaea capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon cycling

(2019) Kiley W. Seitz et al.   Nature Communications

Energy conservation in the gut microbe Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis is based on membrane‐bound ferredoxin oxidation coupled to heterodisulfide reduction

(2019) Lena Kröninger et al.   FEBS Journal

Methanogenesis

(2018) Zhe Lyu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Methanonatronarchaeum thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum thermophilum', extremely halo(natrono)philic methyl-reducing methanogens from hypersaline lakes comprising a new euryarchaeal class Methanonatronarchaeia classis nov.

(2018) Dimitry Y. Sorokin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Revival of Archaeal Methane Microbiology

(2018) Cornelia U. Welte   mSystems

Bacterial and archaeal profiling of hypersaline microbial mats and endoevaporites, under natural conditions and methanogenic microcosm experiments

(2018) José Q. García-Maldonado et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Holistic Assessment of Rumen Microbiome Dynamics through Quantitative Metatranscriptomics Reveals Multifunctional Redundancy during Key Steps of Anaerobic Feed Degradation

(2018) Andrea Söllinger et al.   mSystems

Methanogenic and Sulfate-Reducing Activities in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat and Associated Microbial Diversity

(2017) Santiago Cadena et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic exploration of the diversity, ecology, and evolution of the archaeal domain of life

(2017) Anja Spang et al.   SCIENCE

In-depth analysis of core methanogenic communities from high elevation permafrost-affected wetlands

(2017) Sizhong Yang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Growth Characteristics of Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis and Expression of Methyltransferase Encoding Genes

(2017) Lena Kröninger et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Discovery of extremely halophilic, methyl-reducing euryarchaea provides insights into the evolutionary origin of methanogenesis

(2017) Dimitry Y. Sorokin et al.   Nature Microbiology

Dynamics of archaea at fine spatial scales in Shark Bay mat microbiomes

(2017) Hon Lun Wong et al.   Scientific Reports

Occurrence and expression of novel methyl-coenzyme M reductase gene (mcrA) variants in hot spring sediments

(2017) Luke J. McKay et al.   Scientific Reports

Unusual Butane- and Pentanetriol-Based Tetraether Lipids in Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis, a Representative of the Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2016) Kevin W. Becker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogenesis and the Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association

(2016) Guillaume Borrel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Chasing the elusive Euryarchaeota class WSA2: genomes reveal a uniquely fastidious methyl-reducing methanogen

(2016) Masaru Konishi Nobu et al.   ISME Journal

Methane production from coal by a single methanogen

(2016) D. Mayumi et al.   SCIENCE

A 21st-century shift from fossil-fuel to biogenic methane emissions indicated by 13CH4

(2016) H. Schaefer et al.   SCIENCE

The complete genome sequence of the methanogenic archaeon ISO4-H5 provides insights into the methylotrophic lifestyle of a ruminal representative of the Methanomassiliicoccales

(2016) Yang Li et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Taxonomic Assessment of Rumen Microbiota Using Total RNA and Targeted Amplicon Sequencing Approaches

(2016) Fuyong Li et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota

(2016) Inka Vanwonterghem et al.   Nature Microbiology

A novel pathway of direct methane production and emission by eukaryotes including plants, animals and fungi: An overview

(2015) Jiangong Liu et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Evidence for the involvement of two heterodisulfide reductases in the energy-conserving system ofMethanomassiliicoccus luminyensis

(2015) Lena Kröninger et al.   FEBS Journal

Methane metabolism in the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota revealed by genome-centric metagenomics

(2015) P. N. Evans et al.   SCIENCE

Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Arctic Peat Soil Microbiota

(2014) Alexander T. Tveit et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

New Mode of Energy Metabolism in the Seventh Order of Methanogens as Revealed by Comparative Genome Analysis of “Candidatus Methanoplasma termitum”

(2014) Kristina Lang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine

(2014) Guillaume Borrel et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Methane yield phenotypes linked to differential gene expression in the sheep rumen microbiome

(2014) Weibing Shi et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Looking large, to make more, out of gut metagenomics

(2013) Mark Morrison   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published

(2013) A. Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola: a Novel Methanogen from the Anaerobic Digested Sludge, and Proposal of Methanomassiliicoccaceae fam. nov. and Methanomassiliicoccales ord. nov., for a Methanogenic Lineage of the Class Thermoplasmata

(2013) Takao Iino et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

(2013) Stefanie Kirschke et al.   Nature Geoscience

Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen

(2013) Morten Poulsen et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity of gut methanogens in herbivorous animals

(2012) B. St-Pierre et al.   Animal

“Methanoplasmatales,” Thermoplasmatales-Related Archaea in Termite Guts and Other Environments, Are the Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2012) Kristina Paul et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeon isolated from human faeces

(2012) B. Dridi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Mx1201, a Methanogenic Archaeon from the Human Gut Belonging to a Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2012) G. Borrel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Evidence for methane production by saprotrophic fungi

(2012) Katharina Lenhart et al.   Nature Communications

Identification of microbial communities involved in the methane cycle of a freshwater meromictic lake

(2011) Corinne Biderre-Petit et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Molecular diversity of methanogens and identification of Methanolobus sp. as active methylotrophic Archaea in Lonar crater lake sediments

(2011) Chakkiath Paul Antony et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Oligonucleotide primers, probes and molecular methods for the environmental monitoring of methanogenic archaea

(2011) Takashi Narihiro et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Community Composition and Density of Methanogens in the Foregut of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

(2009) P. N. Evans et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rumen microbial diversity in Svalbard reindeer, with particular emphasis on methanogenic archaea

(2009) Monica A. Sundset et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Metabolic, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Diversity of the Methanogenic Archaea

(2008) Yuchen Liu et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Structure of the Archaeal Community of the Rumen

(2008) P. H. Janssen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov.

(2008) S. Sakai et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A putative new order of methanogenic Archaea inhabiting the human gut, as revealed by molecular analyses of the mcrA gene

(2008) Agnès Mihajlovski et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY