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  • noun Any bacteria that employs methane as a source of carbon and of energy

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Examples

  • In some areas, these methanotroph specialists made up a third of the local bacteria.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • At least with current understanding, there would be few downsides to a greater-than-expected growth of the methanotroph population -- it might even be helpful in mitigating atmospheric methane coming from other sources, such as cattle.

    Warren Ellis Warren Ellis 2010

  • This means that we still have time to get more certainty about the methane situation before we would need to use the methanotroph option; we don't necessarily have to rush past our better judgment in response.

    Warren Ellis Warren Ellis 2010

  • Clearly, if the risks from enhancing the methane consumption and environmental adaptation capacities of a methanotroph could lead (through species-hopping genes or simple mutation) to even harder-to-manage problems than gigatons of atmospheric methane, this isn't an option.

    Warren Ellis Warren Ellis 2010

  • As a matter of fact, "he went on," you have to undergo a lot of unusual evolutionary adaptations to become a methanotroph because it's not a easy lifestyle.

    The Santa Barbara Independent stories 2010

  • Methylosinus sporium (strain 5 [6]) [6] Methylomonas sp. (methanotroph type I [23]) [23]

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  • J.D.: Purification of a high specific activity methane monooxygenase hydroxylase component from a type II methanotroph.

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  • Methylocaldum sp. (methanotroph type I [23]) [23] Methylosphaera sp.

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  • Methylobacter sp. (methanotroph type I [23]) [23] Methylomicrobium sp.

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