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Diversity of the active methanotrophic community in acidic peatlands as assessed by mRNA and SIP-PLFA analyses.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2008
Chen Yin, Dumont Marc G, McNamara Niall P, Chamberlain Paul M, Bodrossy Levente, Stralis-Pavese Nancy, Murrell J Colin
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The active methanotroph community was investigated for the first time in heather (Calluna)-covered moorlands and Sphagnum/Eriophorum-covered UK peatlands. Direct extraction of mRNA from these soils facilitated detection of expression of methane monooxygenase genes, which revealed that particulate methane monooxygenase and not soluble methane monooxygenase was probably responsible for CH(4) oxidation in situ,...
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