Lignite coal burning seam in the remote Altai Mountains harbors a hydrogen-driven thermophilic microbial community

Abstract Thermal ecosystems associated with underground coal combustion sites are rare and less studied than geothermal features. Here we analysed microbial communities of near-surface ground layer and bituminous substance in an open quarry heated by subsurface coal fire by metagenomic DNA sequencin...

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Main Authors: Vitaly V. Kadnikov, Andrey V. Mardanov, Denis A. Ivasenko, Dmitry V. Antsiferov, Alexey V. Beletsky, Olga V. Karnachuk, Nikolay V. Ravin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25146-9