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Nature 401, 217-218 (16 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/45686
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
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- The Ohio State University
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Cracking anaerobic bacteria
John Parkes
Abstract
Hydrocarbons such as hexadecane have seemed resistant to bacterial decay to methane. Not so, it turns out, but this bacterial hydrocarbon 'cracking' process is very slow.
At any one moment, some ten billion tons of particulate organic matter is sinking down through the world's oceans1. This organic matter stimulates microbial activity to such an extent that only a small proportion of it — less than 0.
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