Methane Producing and Utilizing Bacteria (VIDEO)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Caption

This animation shows how a nitrogen-fixing microbe, R. palustris can also produce methane using iron-only nitrogenase and how, in a lab culture, the methane can support the growth of a methane-utilizing Methylomonas.

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Harwood lab/UW Medicine

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