Community structural differences shape microbial responses to high molecular weight organic matter

Hydropyrolysis of High Molecular Weight Organic Matter in Murchison

M. A. Sephton, G. D. Love, J. S. Watson, A. B. Verchovsky, I. P. Wright, C. E. Snape and I. Gilmour, Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK7 6AA, UK, ([email protected]). Fossil Fuels and Environmental Geochemistry, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK. ...

Microbial Community Structure Affects Marine Dissolved Organic Matter Composition

Marine microbes are critical players in the global carbon cycle, affecting both the reduction of inorganic carbon and the remineralization of reduced organic compounds back to carbon dioxide. Members of microbial consortia all depend on marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) and in turn, affect the molecules present in this heterogeneous pool. Our understanding of DOM produced by marine microbes...

Microbial degradation of high-molecular-weight alkanes.

Measurements of biological O(2) demand showed that normal alkanes containing up to 44 carbon atoms were metabolized by microorganisms.

Microbial Fuel Cell: A New Alternative Technology to Generate Electricity from Organic Matter

Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

The soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica are an extreme polar desert, inhabited exclusively by microscopic taxa. This region is on the threshold of anticipated climate change, with glacial melt, permafrost thaw, and the melting of massive buried ice increasing liquid water availability and mobilizing soil nutrients. Experimental water and organic matter (OM) amendments were applied to i...