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Typo using Chem language

elemental sulfur ({{chem|S|0) should be a superscript 0. Frank Layden (talk) 23:25, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Scientists find microbes eating ethane spewing from deep-sea vents"

A pertinent article, via Sigma Xi SmartBrief:

"Scientists find microbes eating ethane spewing from deep-sea vents", Science News April 21, 2020

"Different microbes can turn a variety of organic compounds into energy, but ethane consumption is rare. Most microbes can break down their preferred food source without assistance, but the breakdown of the two main components of natural gas, methane and ethane, requires cooperation between two different types of microbes, archaea and bacteria.

The cooperative pairing is known as a consortium. Because consortium microbes tend to reproduce very slowly, studying them in the lab is difficult. Scientists were surprised to find that ethane-munching microbes found at the bottom of Guaymas Basin are fast growers, with cells doubling every week."

Please update with: "Soil Microbiomes With the Genetic Capacity for Atmospheric Chemosynthesis Are Widespread Across the Poles and Are Associated With Moisture, Carbon, and Nitrogen Limitation"

Please add information on this study to the article. I think it should go into a section titled "Atmospheric chemosynthesis". It's currently featured in 2020 in science like so:

Scientists report that bacteria that feed on air discovered 2017 in Antarctica are likely not limited to Antarctica after discovering the two genes previously linked to their "atmospheric chemosynthesis" in soil of two other similar cold desert sites, which provides further information on this carbon sink and further strengthens the extremophile evidence that supports the potential existence of microbial life on alien planets.^[1]^[2]^[3]

--Prototyperspective (talk) 22:11, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Microbes living on air a global phenomenon". phys.org. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
^ "Bacteria that "eat" only air found in cold deserts around the world". New Atlas. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
^ Ray, Angelique E.; Zhang, Eden; Terauds, Aleks; Ji, Mukan; Kong, Weidong; Ferrari, Belinda C. (2020). "Soil Microbiomes With the Genetic Capacity for Atmospheric Chemosynthesis Are Widespread Across the Poles and Are Associated With Moisture, Carbon, and Nitrogen Limitation". Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01936. ISSN 1664-302X. S2CID 221105556.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) Text and images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

[1] "Microbes living on air a global phenomenon". phys.org. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

[2] "Bacteria that "eat" only air found in cold deserts around the world". New Atlas. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

[3] Ray, Angelique E.; Zhang, Eden; Terauds, Aleks; Ji, Mukan; Kong, Weidong; Ferrari, Belinda C. (2020). "Soil Microbiomes With the Genetic Capacity for Atmospheric Chemosynthesis Are Widespread Across the Poles and Are Associated With Moisture, Carbon, and Nitrogen Limitation". Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01936. ISSN 1664-302X. S2CID 221105556.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) Text and images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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