Sentences with phrase «producing archaea»

In addition to increasing the quantity of organic carbon and reducing the availability of oxygen, eutrophication may also affect the overall quality of organic matter for fueling CH4 - producing archaea.

The hydrogen breath test will measure the presence of hydrogen - producing bacteria in the small intestines, while the methane breath test will measure the presence of methane - producing archaea.

The second is a methane producing archaea, which is associated with more constipation because its byproducts will temporarily paralyze some of the nerves in the small intestine, inhibiting motility, or movement.

A paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science by MIT professor of geophysics Daniel Rothman and other members of the Foundations of Complex Life team suggests the P / T extinction resulted from methane - producing archaea called Methanosarcina suddenly blooming in the oceans.

«We were checking spacecraft and their clean rooms for the presence of archaea, as they are suspected to be possible critical contaminants during space exploration — certain methane - producing archaea, the so - called methanogens, could possibly survive on Mars,» Moissl - Eichinger said.

Not exact matches

The boost may be due to a relative increase in methane - producing microorganisms called archaea in the digestive systems of treated cattle due to the suppression of antibiotic - susceptible bacteria, the team suggests.

Rather than bacteria, all known methane - producing organisms are archaea.

Hundreds of yards below the seafloor, microbes called archaea produce methane from hydrogen and carbon extracted from organic sediments.

In contrast, the community of methanogenic archaea, which in the final stage produce methane, water and carbon dioxide, remained stable.

However, even though the Lokiarchaea are relatively complex compared with other known archaea, they lack the large genome and energy - producing mitochondria of true eukaryotic cells.

Potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrogen oxides produced by denitrifying bacteria in overfertilized Chinese farming lands or methane released by archaea in the millions of ruminant animals in Australia and New Zealand, may have contributed substantially to global warming.

Although Solar radiation and lightning (which has been detected by the ESA's Venus Express probe in 2007) should be producing large amounts of carbon monoxide (CO), the gas was found to be scarce, as if something was removing it (such as hydrogenogens, diverse bacteria and archaea that grow anaerobically utilizing CO as their sole carbon source and water as an electron acceptor to produce carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen as waste products).

Hydrogen SIBO occurs when hydrogen gas is released from bacteria in the small intestines, while the methane form happens when a different kind of organism — archaea — produce methane.

That's because archaea eat hydrogen and turn it into methane, so they «hide» the hydrogen the bacteria are producing.