A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane

By Antje Boetius, K. Ravenschlag, C. Schubert, D. Rickert, F. Widdel, A. Gieseke, R. Amann, B. Jørgensen, U. Witte, O. Pfannkuche. Nature, 2000

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The habitat and nature of early life (2001, background): “These primary producers would be underlain by methanogenic recycler”
Microbial methane turnover in different marine habitats (2005, background): “The high methane flow supports methanotrophic and chemosynthetic communities in the surface sediments (Boetius et al., 2000; Sahling et al., 2002; Treude et al., 2003).”
On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. (2003, background): “…by the model to associate an archaebacterium and a eubacterium, but truly striking anaerobic syntrophic associations involving methanogens and hydrogen dependence (albeit by sulphate reducers) are becoming known in the kinds of environments predicted (Boetius et al. 2000; Michaelis et al. 2002).”
Numerical modeling of carbonate crust formation at cold vent sites: significance for fluid and methane budgets and chemosynthetic biological communities (2004, background): “When methane encounters downwards di¡using seawater sulfate, it is oxidized anaerobically by a consortium of microorganisms that use sulfate as an oxidant, producing sul¢de and carbonate alkalinity [1] :”
Feast and famine — microbial life in the deep-sea bed (2007, background): “The analyses of 16S rRNA gene sequences and stable isotope signatures of specific biomarkers identified several phylogenetic clusters of archaea that are related to Methanosarcinales as the dominant anaerobic methanotroph”
Microbial ecology of the stratified water column of the Black Sea as revealed by a comprehensive biomarker study (2007, background): “, 2006), and methanotrophic Euryarchaeota ANME-1 (ANME-1-350; Boetius et al., 2000) and ANME-2 (EelMS932; Boetius et al.”
Intact polar lipids of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and associated bacteria (2008, background): “ANME-1–350 and EelMS932 (40 and 60% formamide) (Amann et al., 1990; Daims et al., 1999; Boetius et al., 2000).”
Succession of hydrocarbon seep communities associated with the long-lived foundation species Lamellibrachia luymesi (2005, background): “In addition, enhanced authigenic carbonate precipitation, a byproduct of anaerobic methane oxidation and hydrocarbon degradation (Boetius et al. 2000, Formolo et al. 2004), would impede advection (Luff et al. 2004).”
Characterization of Specific Membrane Fatty Acids as Chemotaxonomic Markers for Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Involved in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane (2003, methodology): “The environment is characterized by high fluid flow (Torres et al. 2002), steep gradients of pore water sulfate (Boetius et al. 2000; Elvert et al. 2001), high rates of AOM and sulfate reduction (Boetius et al. 2000; Treude et al. submitted), 13C-depleted lipid biomarkers of archaeal and bacterial…”
Syntrophism among Prokaryotes (2013, neutral): “…oxidation was found to be associated with discrete, spherical microbial aggre gates which consisted, according to fluorescent in situ hybridi zation analysis (FISH), of Methanosarcina like archaea in the center, surrounded by Desulfosarcina related sulfate reducing bacteria (Boetius et al. 2000).”
Electron transfer in syntrophic communities of anaerobic bacteria and archaea (2009, methodology): “The visualization of bacteria and archaea in zones where methane and sulphate are converte”
Impact of natural oil and higher hydrocarbons on microbial diversity, distribution, and activity in Gulf of Mexico cold-seep sediments (2010, background): “The known marine ANME organisms typically form syntrophic consortia with sulfate-reducing bacteria of the genera Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus (SEEP-SRB1 group) or Desulfobulbus within the Deltaproteobacteria (Boetius et al., 2000; Knittel et al., 2003; Orphan et al., 2001).”
Building the Biomarker Tree of Life (2005, background): “Currently they are classifi ed broadly among three new categories of Euryarchaeota, ANME-1, ANME-2, and ANME-3 (Boetius et al. 2000; Orphan et al. 2001, 2002; Knittel et al. 2005).”