ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2013
Termites facilitate methane oxidation and shape the methanotrophic community.
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- Rethinking Termite Methane Emissions: Does the Mound Environment Matter?Global change biology · 2026Article
- Resilience of aerobic methanotrophs in soils; spotlight on the methane sink under agriculture.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Interkingdom interaction: the soil isopod Porcellio scaber stimulates the methane-driven bacterial and fungal interaction.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Termite-engineered microbial communities of termite nest structures: a new dimension to the extended phenotype.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2022Review
- Aerobic Methanotrophy and Co-occurrence Networks of a Tropical Rainforest and Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia.Microbial ecology · 2022Article
- Termite mounds contain soil-derived methanotroph communities kinetically adapted to elevated methane concentrations.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- Activity and Identification of Methanotrophic Bacteria in Arable and No-Tillage Soils from Lublin Region (Poland).Microbial ecology · 2019Article
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- Termite mounds mitigate half of termite methane emissions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Biotic Interactions in Microbial Communities as Modulators of Biogeochemical Processes: Methanotrophy as a Model System.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Termite-derived methane contributes 3 to 4% to the total methane budget globally. Termites are not known to harbor methane-oxidizing microorganisms (methanotrophs). However, a considerable fraction of the methane produced can be consumed by methanotrophs that inhabit the mound material, yet the methanotroph ecology in these environments is virtually unknown. The potential for methane oxidation was determined using slurry incubations under conditions with high (12%) and in situ (∼0.004%) methane concentrations through a vertical profile of a termite (Macrotermes falciger) mound and a reference soil. Interestingly, the mound material showed higher methanotrophic activity. The methanotroph community structure was determined by means of a pmoA-based diagnostic microarray. Although the methanotrophs in the mound were derived from populations in the reference soil, it appears that termite activity selected for a distinct community. Applying an indicator species analysis revealed that putative atmospheric methane oxidizers (high-indicator-value probes specific for the JR3 cluster) were indicative of the active nest area, whereas methanotrophs belonging to both type I and type II were indicative of the reference soil. We conclude that termites modify their environment, resulting in higher methane oxidation and selecting and/or enriching for a distinct methanotroph population.
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