"Methane" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The simplest saturated hydrocarbon. It is a colorless, flammable gas, slightly soluble in water. It is one of the chief constituents of natural gas and is formed in the decomposition of organic matter. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
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D008697
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146.571
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methane" by people in Profiles.
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El Houari A, Carpenter M, Chaplin D, Golyshin P, McDonald JE. Anaerozeibacter quisquiliarum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic bacterium isolated from a laboratory-scale methanogenic landfill bioreactor digesting maize, and proposal of Anaerozeibacteraceae fam. nov., representing a new family within the order Eubacteriales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2025 Dec; 75(12).
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Terrazas F, Kelley ST, DeMasi T, Giltvedt K, Tsang M, Nannini K, Kern M, Hooshmand S. Influence of menstrual cycle and oral contraception on taxonomic composition and gas production in the gut microbiome. J Med Microbiol. 2025 Mar; 74(3).
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El Houari A, Carpenter M, Chaplin D, Golyshin P, McDonald JE. Taxonomic description and genome sequence of Anaerorudis cellulosivorans gen. Nov. sp. nov., a novel cellulose- and Xylan-degrading bacterium of the Bacteroidota phylum isolated from a lab-scale methanogenic landfill bioreactor digesting municipal solid waste. Syst Appl Microbiol. 2025 Mar; 48(2):126590.
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Min BR, Ismael H, Chaudhary S, Hilaire M, Kanyi V, Wang H, Abdo H, Puchala R. The effect of Methylococcus capsulatus in mono- or co-culture with Methanobrevibacter smithii or with mixed rumen fluid on bacterial growth and methane gas production. J Anim Sci. 2025 Jan 04; 103.
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Vigneron A, Alsop EB, Cruaud P, Philibert G, King B, Baksmaty L, Lavall?e D, P Lomans B, Kyrpides NC, Head IM, Tsesmetzis N. Comparative metagenomics of hydrocarbon and methane seeps of the Gulf of Mexico. Sci Rep. 2017 11 22; 7(1):16015.
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Andresen CG, Lara MJ, Tweedie CE, Lougheed VL. Rising plant-mediated methane emissions from arctic wetlands. Glob Chang Biol. 2017 03; 23(3):1128-1139.
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Lara MJ, McGuire AD, Euskirchen ES, Tweedie CE, Hinkel KM, Skurikhin AN, Romanovsky VE, Grosse G, Bolton WR, Genet H. Polygonal tundra geomorphological change in response to warming alters future CO2 and CH4 flux on the Barrow Peninsula. Glob Chang Biol. 2015 Apr; 21(4):1634-51.
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Wang Z, Guo M, Baker GA, Stetter JR, Lin L, Mason AJ, Zeng X. Methane-oxygen electrochemical coupling in an ionic liquid: a robust sensor for simultaneous quantification. Analyst. 2014 Oct 21; 139(20):5140-7.
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Wagner T, Zeglis BM, Groveman S, Hille C, P?thig A, Francesconi LC, Herrmann WA, K?hn FE, Reiner T. Synthesis of the first radiolabeled 188Re N-heterocyclic carbene complex and initial studies on its potential use in radiopharmaceutical applications. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm. 2014 Jun 15; 57(7):441-7.
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Hargrove J, Shashikala HB, Guerrido L, Ravi N, Wang XQ. Band gap opening in methane intercalated graphene. Nanoscale. 2012 Aug 07; 4(15):4443-6.