{"id":13642,"date":"2019-06-03T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=13642"},"modified":"2019-06-17T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:09:04","slug":"a-new-way-to-keep-tabs-on-methane-eating-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/a-new-way-to-keep-tabs-on-methane-eating-microbes\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Way to Keep Tabs on Methane-Eating Microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaerobic methanotrophs are a group of microbes that consume methane and live a low-energy lifestyle in oxygen-free environments. A new study shows that measuring the ratio of rare isotopes of methane from marine sediments is a useful tool for tracking their activities, which previously have been hard to distinguish from those of microbes that make methane.<em> Featuring our most recent Network Speaker Series speaker, <strong>Jeanine Ash\u00a0<\/strong>(watch the seminar on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zqIREe5s9hw\">Making and breaking Molecules<\/a>,&#8221; now on YouTube).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaerobic methanotrophs are a group of microbes that consume methane and live a low-energy lifestyle in oxygen-free environments. A new study shows that measuring the ratio of rare isotopes of methane from marine sediments is a useful tool for tracking their activities, which previously have been hard to distinguish from those of microbes that make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13643,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions\/13643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13642"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=13642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}