590811 external_news 1493054267 1493124772 Methane-making microbes may have battled “rust-breathing” microbes for dominance in early Earth’s oceans—and kept those oceans from freezing under an ancient, dimmer sun in the process, new research suggests....“The ancestors of modern methane-making and rust-breathing microbes may have long battled for dominance in habitats largely governed by iron chemistry,” says Marcus Bray, a biology doctoral candidate in the laboratory of Jennifer Glass, assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Glass was the principal investigator for the Georgia Tech research team, which included professors Frank Stewart and Tom DiChristina, postdoctoral scholars Jieying Wu and Cecilia Kretz, Ph.D candidate Keaton Belli, and M.S. student Ben Reed.

 

 

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