The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane
Open accessAbstract
Massive microbial mats covering up to 4-meter-high carbonate buildups prosper at methane seeps in anoxic waters of the northwestern Black Sea shelf. Strong 13 C depletions indicate an incorporation of methane carbon into carbonates, bulk biomass, and specific lipids. The mats mainly consist of densely aggregated archaea (phylogenetic ANME-1 cluster) and sulfate-reducing bacteria ( Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus group). If incubated in vitro, these mats perform anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulfate reduction. Obviously, anaerobic microbial consortia can generate both carbonate precipitation and substantial biomass accumulation, which has implications for our understanding of carbon cycling during earlier periods of Earth's history.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Microfossils of the early Archean apex chert: New evidence of the antiquity of life
Schopf, J. W. (1993) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.260.5108.640 · Cited by 1,363
Cited by
Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life
Martin, W., Baross, J., Kelley, D., & Russell, M. J. (2008) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/nrmicro1991 · Cited by 1,608
Electron transfer in syntrophic communities of anaerobic bacteria and archaea
Stams, A. J. M., & Plugge, C. M. (2009) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/nrmicro2166 · Cited by 1,441
Martin, W., & Russell, M. J. (2003) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1183 · Cited by 856
Feast and famine–Microbial life in the deep-sea bed
Jørgensen, B. B., & Boetius, A. (2007) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/nrmicro1745 · Cited by 671
Self-citationFate of rising methane bubbles in stratified waters: How much methane reaches the atmosphere?
McGinnis, D. F., Greinert, J., Artemov, Y., Beaubien, S. E., & Wüest, A. (2006) · Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans · doi:10.1029/2005jc003183 · Cited by 668
Metadata
- Authors
- Michaelis, W., Seifert, R., Nauhaus, K., Treude, T., Thiel, V., Blumenberg, M., Knittel, K., Gieseke, A., Peterknecht, K., Pape, T., Boetius, A., Amann, R., Jørgensen, B. B., Widdel, F., Peckmann, J., Pimenov, N. V., & Gulin, M. B.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2002-08-09
- Volume
- 297
- Issue
- 5583
- Pages
- 1013-1015
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2118598909
- Cited by
- 766
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 34.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.1072502
- The paper
- Michaelis, W., Seifert, R., Nauhaus, K., Treude, T., Thiel, V., Blumenberg, M., Knittel, K., Gieseke, A., Peterknecht, K., Pape, T., Boetius, A., Amann, R., Jørgensen, B. B., Widdel, F., Peckmann, J., Pimenov, N. V., & Gulin, M. B. (2002). Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1072502
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
