Model Methanogens Provide Clues To Possible Mars Life Date: May 28, 2007 Source: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Summary: Researchers have tested the methane production of three different ...

However, methanogens seem to be a potential candidate for what life on Mars might look like — they produce methane and live in harsh, anaerobic environments, such as the guts of animals, in deep ...

Methanogens -- among the simplest and oldest organisms on Earth -- could survive on Mars, new research suggests. Methanogens, microorganisms in the domain Archaea, use hydrogen as their energy ...

Beutler & Son Rodeo Company in Elk City, Oklahoma, has lost nearly 70 horses used in its rodeo stock contracting business after feed containing a significant amount of monensin was fed to their ...

M ore than 40 horses have died after their treating veterinarian says they consumed feed that may have been tainted with monensin. One report from KOCO News 5 estimated the death toll may be as ...

Monensin is an FDA-approved drug for use in certain animal feeds. However, if the feed contains excessive amounts of the drug, the feed can cause monensin toxicity in a number of animal species ...

Long-term monensin supplementation does not significantly affect the quantity or diversity of methanogens in the rumen of the lactating dairy cow. Appl Environ Microbiol 75 : 374–380.

Studies in mice have linked methanogens to increased body weight even when calorie intake was the same. In humans, the connection is murkier. Some research questions the links between methane ...

Hydrogenotrophic methanogens, such as M. thermolithotrophicus, have the amazing ability to convert dihydrogen (H 2, for example artificially produced from renewable energy) and carbon dioxide (CO ...

With the discovery of the sulfate-assimilation pathway in M. thermolithotrophicus, it is possible to genetically engineer methanogens that are already used in biotechnology to use this pathway ...

Climate-changing microbes that produced methane may have appeared on Earth 700 million years earlier than previously thought – perhaps helping the world to keep warm while life took hold. These ...