Annu Rev Microbiol October 2009 PMID 19575572

Anaerobic oxidation of methane: progress with an unknown process.

Katrin Knittel, Antje Boetius

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Methane is a major greenhouse gas that has significantly contributed to global warming, but the microbial processes behind its production and consumption are not fully understood.
The primary microbial groups involved in methane fluxes are aerobic methanotrophic bacteria, methanogenic archaea, and anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME), which gain energy through an anaerobic process called AOM that uses sulfate as the final electron acceptor.
The exact mechanisms of anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) and the specific microbial agents involved, especially the role of ANME and their bacterial partners, remain largely unknown and are a focus of ongoing research.

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