The researchers discovered, for the first time in the world, bacteria that parasitize the methanogenic archaea, which play a central role in anaerobic wastewater treatment systems. The ultrasmall ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ultrasmall bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified the ...

Victoria Orphan and colleagues now report that whale carcasses also provide a previously unknown niche for methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea. Goffredi et al. have access to a natural whale ...

One of these ingredients is a liquid extracted from ground cashew-nut-shells, which inhibits some bacteria and methanogenic archaea. The others include 3-nitrooxypropanol, a synthetic compound ...