Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Marum Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen, Germany, now present a study on the degradation of ethane, the second ...
The anaerobic oxidation of ethane was described a few years ago, and many of its secrets still have to be unraveled. "When drawing the chemical reactions of the pathway on paper, we found large ...
Deep-sea microbes consume alkanes, reducing oceanic and atmospheric pollution, and a new study reveals they utilize a unique metabolic pathway. This discovery challenges previous beliefs about ...