ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023
A Review on Hypothesized Metabolic Pathways on Europa and Enceladus: Space-Flight Detection Considerations.
Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Uneven global coverage of halophilic metagenomes limits comparative analyses of microbial adaptation to saline environments.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2026Article
- The chemistry of habitable oceans in the Solar system.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Radiation-Resistant Microbes: Pioneers for Life Beyond Earth.Current microbiology · 2026Review
- A hidden pattern? Common polyextremophilic microbial adaptations in Icy Moon analog environments.Frontiers in astronomy and space sciences · 2026Article
- Extreme Arabian environments and their microbiomes: new frontiers for astrobiology and biosignature discovery.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2026Review
- Probing the habitability of potential sulfuric acid rich subsurface lakes in Europa's ice shell viaFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries.Microbial biotechnology · 2025Review
- Halophiles and Halotolerants: From Industry to Astrobiology.Current microbiology · 2025Review
- Microbes from ambient-pressure analogues offer insights into possible life in Europa's high-pressure subsurface ocean.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Growth, physiology, and metabolism ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Genome-scale metabolic modelling of extremophiles and its applications in astrobiological environments.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Review
- Biological functions at high pressure: transcriptome response ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Enceladus and Europa, icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, respectively, are believed to be habitable with liquid water oceans and therefore are of interest for future life detection missions and mission concepts. With the limited data from missions to these moons, many studies have sought to better constrain these conditions. With these constraints, researchers have, based on modeling and experimental studies, hypothesized a number of possible metabolisms that could exist on Europa and Enceladus if these worlds host life. The most often hypothesized metabolisms are methanogenesis for Enceladus and methane oxidation/sulfate reduction on Europa. Here, we outline, review, and compare the best estimated conditions of each moon's ocean. We then discuss the hypothetical metabolisms that have been suggested to be present on these moons, based on laboratory studies and Earth analogs. We also detail different detection methods that could be used to detect these hypothetical metabolic reactions and make recommendations for future research and considerations for future missions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.