Isotope tracking of microbial methane formation and oxidation

References

• Adams, D. D. & van Eck, G. T. M., 1988: Biogeochemical cycling of organic carbon in the sediments of the Grote Rug reservoir. — Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol. 31: 319–330.
   Google Scholar
• Alperin, M. J., Reeburgh, W. S. & Whiticar, M. J., 1988: Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation resulting from anaerobic methane oxidation. — Global Btogeochem. Cycles 2: 279–288.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Andreae, M. O. & Schimel, D. S. (eds.) 1989: Exchange of Trace Gases Between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere: 347 pp. — Dahlem Workshop Reports, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK.
   Google Scholar
• Barker, J. E & Fritz, P., 1981: Carbon isotope fractionation during microbial methane oxidation. — Nature 293: 289–291.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Belyaev, S. S., Finkelstein, Z. I. & Ivanov, M. V., 1975: Intensity of bacterial methane formation in ooze deposits of certain lakes. — Microbiology 44: 272–275.
   Google Scholar
• Bossard, P., 1981: Der Sauerstoff- und Methanhaushalt im Lungeensee: 71 pp. — Ph. D. thesis, E.T.H. Zürich.
   Google Scholar
• Cappenberg, Th. E. & Jongejan, E., 1978: Microenvironments for sulfate reduction and methane production in freshwater sediments. — In: Krumbein, W. E. (ed.): Environmental Biogeochemistry and Geomicrobioloy. pp. 129–138. — Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, MI.
   Google Scholar
• Cicerone, R. J. & Oremland, R. S., 1988: Biogeochemical aspects of atmospheric methane. — Global Biogeochem. Cycles 2: 299–327.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Claypool G. E., 1974: Anoxic diagenesis and bacterial methane production in deep sea deiments: 276 pp. — Ph. D. Thesis, UCLA, 1974.
   Google Scholar
• Claypool, G. E. & Kaplan, I. R., 1974: The origin and distribution of methane in marine sediments: — In: Kaplan, I. R. (ed.): Natural Gases in Marine Sediments. pp. 99–139. — Plenum Press, NY.
   Google Scholar
• Coleman, D. D., Risattiand, J. B. & Schoell, M., 1981: Fractionation of carbon and hydrogen isotopes by methane-oxidizing bacteria. — Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 45: 1033–1037.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Conrad, R., 1989: Control of methane production in terrestrial ecosystems. — In: Andreae, M. O. & Schimel, D. S. (eds.): Exchange of Trace Gases Between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere. pp. 39–58. — Dahlem Workshop Reports, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK.
   Google Scholar
• Conrad, R. & Schütz, H., 1988: Methods of studying methanogenic bacteria and methanogenic activities in aquatic environments. — In: Austin, B. (ed.): Methods in Aquatic Bacteriology pp. 301–343. — John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK.
   Google Scholar
• Daniels, L., Fulton, G., Spencer, R. W. & Orme-Johnson, W. H., 1980: Origin of hydrogen in methane produced by Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. — J. Bacteriology 141: 694–698.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Fuchs, G. D., Thauer, R., Ziegler, H. & Stichler, W., 1979: Carbon isotope fractionation by Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. — Arch. Microbiol. 120: 135–139.
   Google Scholar
• Iversen, N. & Blackburn, T. H., 1981: Seasonal rates of methane oxidation in anoxic marine sediments. — Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 41: 1295–1300.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Iversen, N. & Jorgensen, B. B., 1985: Anaerobic methane oxidation rates at the sulfate-methane transition in marine sediments from Kattegat and Skagerrak (Denmark). — Limnol. Oceanogr. 30: 944–955.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koyama, T., 1964: Gaseous metabolism in lake sediments and paddy soils. — In: Columbo, U. & Hobson, G. D. (eds.): Advances in Organic Geochemistry pp. 363–375. — MacMillan Co., NY.
   Google Scholar
• Krzycki, J. A., Kenealy, W. R., Deniro, M. J. & Zeikus, J. G., 1987: Stable carbon isotope fractionation by Methanosarcina barkeri during methanogenesis from acetate, methanol or carbon dioxide-hydrogen. — Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53: 2597–2599.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lebedew, W. C., Owsjannikow, W. M., Mogilewskij, G. A. & Bogdanow, W. M., 1969: Fraktionierung der Kohlenstoffisotope durch mikrobiologische Prozesse in der biochemischen Zone. — Angew. Geol. 12: 621–624.
   Google Scholar
• Martens, C. S. & Berner, R. A., 1977: Interstitial water chemistry of anoxic Long Island Sound sediments I. Dissolved gases. — Limnol. Oceanogr. 22: 10–25.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nakai, M., Yoshida, Y. & Ando, N., 1974: Isotopic studies on oil and natural gas fields in Japan. — Chikyakaya (Geochem.) 7/8(1): 87–98.
   Google Scholar
• Oremland, R. S., Miller, L. G. & Whiticar, M. J., 1987: Sources and flux of natural gases from Mono Lake, California. — Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51: 2915–2929.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Oremland, R. S., Whiticar, M. J., Strohmaier, F. E. & Kiene, R. P., 1988a: Bacterial ethane formation from reduced, ethylated sulfur compounds in anoxic sediments. — Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 52: 1895–1904.
   Google Scholar
• Oremland, R. S., Kiene, R. P., Mathrani, I., Whiticar, M. J. & Boone, D. R., 1988b: Description of an estuarine methylotrophic methanogen which grows on dimethyl sulfide. — Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55: 994–1002.
   Google Scholar
• Pine, M. J. & Barker, H. A., 1956: Studies on methane fermentation XII. The pathway of hydrogen in the acetate fermentation. — J. Bacteriol. 71: 644–648.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Pine, M. J. & Vishniac, W., 1957: The methane fermentation of acetate and methanol.— J. Bacteriol. 73: 736–742.
   Google Scholar
• Reeburgh, W. S., 1976: Methane consumption in Cariaco Trench waters and sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 28: 337–344.
   Google Scholar
• Rosenfeld, W. D. & Silvermann, S. R., 1959: Carbon isotope fractionation in bacterial production of methane. — Science 130: 1658–1659.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rudd, J. W. M. & Hamilton, R. D., 1975: Factors controlling rates of methane oxidation and the distribution of the methane oxidizers in a small stratified lake. — Arch. Hydrobiol. 75: 522–538.
   Google Scholar
• Sansone, J. & Martens, C. S., 1981: Methane production from acetate and associated methane fluxes from anoxic coastal sediments. — Science 211: 707–709.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schoell, M., 1980: The hydrogen and carbon isotopic composition of methane from natural gases of various origins. — Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 44: 649–661.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Silverman, M. P. & Oyama, V. I., 1968: Automatic apparatus for sampling and preparing gases for mass spectral studies of carbon isotope fractionation during methane metabolism. — Anal Chem. 40: 1833–1877.
   Google Scholar
• Takai, Y., 1970: The mechanism of methane fermentation in flooded paddy soil. — Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 16: 238–244.
   Google Scholar
• Whiticar, M. J., 1982: The presence of methane bubbles in the acoustically turbid sediments of Eckernförder Bay, Baltic Sea. — In: Fanning, K. A. & Manheim, F. T. (eds.): Dynamic Environment of the Ocean Floor. 219–235. — Lexington Books, MA.
   Google Scholar
• Whiticar, M. J., 1990: A geochemical perspective of natural gas and atmospheric methane. 14th EAOG Mtg. Paris, 1989. — In: Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1989. — Org. Geochem. 16: 531–547.
   Google Scholar
• Whiticar, M. J. & Faber, E., 1986: Methane oxidation in sediment and water column environments — isotope evidence. — Org. Geochem. 10: 759–768.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whiticar, M. J., Faber, E. & Schoell, M., 1986: Biogenic methane formation in marine and freshwater environments: CO2 reduction vs. acetate fermentation — Isotope evidence. — Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50: 693–709.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whiticar, M. J. & Suess, E., 1990: Hydrothermal hydrocarbon gases in the sediments of the King George Basin, Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. — In: Simoneit, B. R. T. (ed): Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Systems. — Applied Geochemistry 5: 135–147.
   Google Scholar
• Whiticar, M. J., Müller, V. & Blaut, M., 1991: Isotope tracking of methanol disproportionation during methanogenesis. — Appl. Environ. Microbiol. (submitted ms).
   Google Scholar
• Winfrey, M. R., Nelson, D. R., Klevickis, S. C. & Zeikus, J. G., 1977: Association of hydrogen metabolism with methanogenesis in Lake Mendota sediments. — Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 33: 312–318.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woltemate, I., Whiticar, M. J. & Schoell, M., 1984: Carbon and hydrogen isotopic composition of bacterial methane in a shallow freshwater lake. — Limnol. Oceanogr. 29: 985–992.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zyakun, A. M., Bondar, V. A. & Namsarayev, B. B., 1979: Fraktsionirovaniye stabil' nööykh izotopov ugleroda metana pri yego mikrobiologicheskom okisleni (Fractionation of stable carbon isotopes in methane during microbiological oxidation). — Geochem. Int. 16: 164–169.
   Google Scholar
• Zyakun, A. M., Bondar, V. A., Namsarayev, B. B. & Nesterov, A. I., 1984: Use of carbon-isotope analysis in determining the rates of microbiological oxidation of methane in natural ecosystems. — Geocbem. Int. 22: 67–72.
   Google Scholar
• Zehnder, A. J. B. (ed.), 1988: Biology of Anaerobic Microorganisms. — John Wiley and Sons Inc., N.Y.
   Google Scholar