New methane-forming archaeon cultivated

Summary

Many different kinds of metabolism mechanisms are found in nature. Some microorganisms produce methane when combusting their food. Among archaea, the oldest microorganisms, all the methane-producing ones were thought to belong to the Euryarchaeota group. It turns out that was wrong. Microbiologist Kejia Wu, working at the group of microbiologist Diana Z. de Sousa isolated one in a
completely different branch of the archaea.