Publication Name: AEGC 2021
Authors: B.C. Campbell, Se Gong, P. Greenfield, D.J. Midgley, I.T. Paulsen, S.C. George
Date Published: September 2021
Number of Pages: 3
Abstract:
A large proportion of the methane found in coal seams is produced by microbial communities. Despite coal seam methane being a valuable resource for human energy security, the processes employed by these microbes in the production of methane are still not well understood. In order to investigate which types of methanogens are present within the Surat Basin, Queensland, and thus which substrates are likely being made available to them by other microbes during coal degradation, two datasets of coal seam microbial community DNA underwent a process of filtering and assembly to extract DNA sequences for key methane-producing genes (mcrA).