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SCIENCE
卷 293, 期 5529, 页码 484-487出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061338
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Microorganisms Living in anoxic marine sediments consume more than 80% of the methane produced in the world's oceans. In addition to single-species aggregates, consortia of metabolically interdependent bacteria and archaea are found in methane-rich sediments. A combination of fluorescence in situ hybridization and secondary ion mass spectrometry shows that cells belonging to one specific archaeal group associated with the Methanosarcinales were all highly depleted in C-13 (to values of -96 parts per thousand). This depletion indicates assimilation of isotopically Light methane into specific archaeal cells. Additional microbial species apparently use other carbon sources, as indicated by significantly higher C-13/C-12 ratios in their cell carbon. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of simultaneous determination of the identity and the metabolic activity of naturally occurring microorganisms.
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