methanogenic

• a word derived from methanogen.
  methanogen

  noun

  any of a diverse group of widely distributed archaea that occur in anaerobic environments, as the intestinal tracts of animals, freshwater and marine sediments, and sewage, and are capable of producing methane from a limited number of substrates, including carbon dioxide and hydrogen, acetate, and methylamines: an important source of natural gas.

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"We found that the machinery required to create pyrrolysine is widespread in the Archaea, especially amongst these methanogenic archaea that consume methylated amines," said Shalvarjian, now a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026

Mr Clothier explains: "The methanogenic bacteria are gobbling up all the solids and generating loads of lovely methane, which we then catch in the hoods over the top."

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

Did the methanogenic bacteria species also evolve as a strict anaerobe?

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Although there are more important biospheric sources of atmospheric methane than the methanogenic archaea in the rumens of cattle, my father’s throwaway phrase is a memorable bit of rhetoric.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2013

In collaboration with Ralph S. Wolfe I looked at the ribo­somal RNA of the methanogenic bacte­ria.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2013

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