Microbially induced precipitation of silica by anaerobic methane-oxidizing consortia and implications for microbial fossil preservation
Daniela Osorio-Rodriguez, Kyle S. Metcalfe, Shawn E. McGlynn, Hang Yu, Anne E. Dekas, Mark Ellisman, Tom Deerinck, Ludmilla Aristilde, John P. Grotzinger, Victoria J. Orphan · 2023
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Daniela Osorio-Rodriguez and co-authors wrote a 2023 paper on microbes that eat methane deep under the sea. Teams of microbes living without oxygen join to consume methane rising from the seabed. Rocks formed at such seeps can hold traces of this life for ages. Whether the microbes themselves can turn to stone was unknown.
In long lab cultures, the microbe teams grew in clean seawater without sediment. Tiny grains of silica, about two hundred nanometers wide, formed inside the sticky clusters the teams live in. That shows the microbes can trigger stone-making themselves, not just sit in passing minerals. The finding helps scientists read ancient rocks for signs of this hidden methane-eating life.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Daniela Osorio-Rodriguez, Kyle S. Metcalfe, Shawn E. McGlynn, Hang Yu, Anne E. Dekas, Mark Ellisman, Tom Deerinck, Ludmilla Aristilde, John P. Grotzinger, Victoria J. Orphan |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |