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Comparative study of methanogen diversity and potential activity of different methanogenic pathways in the sediments of young thermokarst and mature polygenetic Yamal lakes was carried out. The hydrogenotrophic pathway of methanogenesis played an important role in methane formation in thermokarst lakes. The acetoclastic and methylotrophic pathways were also revealed there. In a polygenetic lake with a dissolved organic matter content closest to that of the thermokarst lakes, methanogenesis proceeded more intensively, and the relative abundance of methanogens, especially acetoclastic ones, was higher than in thermokarst lakes. The activity of methyl-reducing methanogens was also assumed there. Methanogens of the genera Methanothrix and Methanoregula, as well as representatives of the family Methanomassiliicoccaceae were identified in the sediments of all lakes. Methane-oxidizing bacteria (Methylobacter, Candidatus “Methylomirabilis”) and archaea (Ca. “Methanoperedens”) were also detected.
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The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 16-14-10201. The work of I.I. Rusanov was supported by the RF Ministry of Science and Higher Education (State Assignment of the Biotechnology Center, Russian Academy of Sciences). The Yamal expedition was supported by the Russian Center for Arctic Exploration.
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Kallistova, A.Y., Kadnikov, V.V., Savvichev, A.S. et al. Comparative Study of Methanogenic Pathways in the Sediments of Thermokarst and Polygenetic Yamal Lakes. Microbiology 90, 261–267 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261721020065
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