Methane-oxidizing bacteria represent a major biological sink for methane and are thus Earth's natural protection against this potent greenhouse gas. Here we show that in two stratified freshwater lakes a substantial part of upward-diffusing methane was oxidized by filamentous gamma-proteobacteria related to Crenothrix polyspora. These filamentous bacteria have been known as contaminants of drinking water supplies since 1870, but their role in the environmental methane removal has remained unclear. While oxidizing methane, these organisms were assigned an 'unusual' methane monooxygenase (MMO), which was only distantly related to 'classical' MMO of gamma-proteobacterial methanotrophs. We now correct this assignment and show that Crenothrix en...
Methane emissions from freshwater environments contribute substantially to global warming but are un...
Crenothrix polyspora Cohn 1870 and Clonothrix fusca Roze 1896 are two filamentous, sheathed microorg...
Boreal lakes and ponds produce two-thirds of the total natural methane emissions above the latitude ...
Methane-oxidizing bacteria represent a major biological sink for methane and are thus Earth's natura...
135 years ago Ferdinand Cohn, the founder of bacteriology, microscopically observed a conspicuous fi...
Freshwater lakes represent a substantial natural source of methane to the atmosphere and thus contri...
Freshwater lakes represent a substantial natural source of methane to the atmosphere and thus contri...
Small oxygen-stratified humic lakes of the boreal zone are important sources of methane to the atmos...
Small oxygen-stratified humic lakes of the boreal zone are important sources of methane to the atmos...
Freshwater lakes represent large methane sources that, in contrast to the Ocean, significantly contr...
Freshwater lakes represent large methane sources that, in contrast to the Ocean, significantly contr...
Methanotrophic bacteria represent an important biological filter regulating methane emissions into t...
In lakes, large amounts of methane are produced in anoxic sediments. Methane-oxidizing bacteria effe...
14 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, supporting information https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14877Lake met...
Small oxygen-stratified humic lakes of the boreal zone are important sources of methane to the atmo...
Methane emissions from freshwater environments contribute substantially to global warming but are un...
Crenothrix polyspora Cohn 1870 and Clonothrix fusca Roze 1896 are two filamentous, sheathed microorg...
Boreal lakes and ponds produce two-thirds of the total natural methane emissions above the latitude ...
Methane-oxidizing bacteria represent a major biological sink for methane and are thus Earth's natura...
135 years ago Ferdinand Cohn, the founder of bacteriology, microscopically observed a conspicuous fi...
Freshwater lakes represent a substantial natural source of methane to the atmosphere and thus contri...
Freshwater lakes represent a substantial natural source of methane to the atmosphere and thus contri...
Small oxygen-stratified humic lakes of the boreal zone are important sources of methane to the atmos...
Small oxygen-stratified humic lakes of the boreal zone are important sources of methane to the atmos...
Freshwater lakes represent large methane sources that, in contrast to the Ocean, significantly contr...
Freshwater lakes represent large methane sources that, in contrast to the Ocean, significantly contr...
Methanotrophic bacteria represent an important biological filter regulating methane emissions into t...
In lakes, large amounts of methane are produced in anoxic sediments. Methane-oxidizing bacteria effe...
14 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, supporting information https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14877Lake met...
Small oxygen-stratified humic lakes of the boreal zone are important sources of methane to the atmo...
Methane emissions from freshwater environments contribute substantially to global warming but are un...
Crenothrix polyspora Cohn 1870 and Clonothrix fusca Roze 1896 are two filamentous, sheathed microorg...
Boreal lakes and ponds produce two-thirds of the total natural methane emissions above the latitude ...