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GLOBAL - Methane is an organic carbon compound
containing the fundamental building block of nearly all living material:
carbon. It provides an important source of energy and nutrients for
bacteria. Methane is produced in oxygen-free environments and is found
in abundance at the bottom of lakes. The
Brazilian post-doctoral researcher in biology and ecology, Angela
Sanseverino, has presented a study that shows methane from lakebeds to
be present in fish tissue. The study was carried out in cooperation
with, inter alia, David Bastviken, Water and Environmental Studies
(WES), Linköping University.
Angela Sanseverino has studied a combination of two biomarkers: a stable
isotope that indicates the presence of methane along with a specific
fatty acid from methane-oxidizing bacteria. The study was carried out on
fish and other parts of the food web from a lake in the Pantanal,
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