Diversity of magmatism, hydrothermal processes and microbial interactions at mid-ocean ridges

GL Früh-Green, DS Kelley, MD Lilley… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrothermal circulation and alteration at mid-ocean ridges and ridge flanks have a key role
in regulating seawater chemistry and global chemical fluxes, and support diverse …

Deep-sea organisms research oriented by deep-sea technologies development

JC Feng, J Liang, Y Cai, S Zhang, J Xue, Z Yang - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep-sea environment, characterized by high pressures, extremely high/low temperatures,
limited photosynthesis-generated organic matter, darkness, and high levels of corrosion, is …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap for focused ion beam technologies

K Höflich, G Hobler, FI Allen, T Wirtz, G Rius… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

Inactive hydrothermal vent microbial communities are important contributors to deep ocean primary productivity

AM Achberger, R Jones, J Jamieson, CP Holmes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Active hydrothermal vents are oases for productivity in the deep ocean, but the flow of
dissolved substrates that fuel such abundant life ultimately ceases, leaving behind inactive …

Impacts of deep‐sea mining on microbial ecosystem services

BN Orcutt, JA Bradley, WJ Brazelton… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in extracting mineral resources from the seafloor through deep‐sea mining has
accelerated in the past decade, driven by consumer demand for various metals like zinc …

Animal life in the shallow subseafloor crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

M Bright, S Gollner, AL de Oliveira… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
It was once believed that only microbes and viruses inhabited the subseafloor crust beneath
hydrothermal vents. Yet, on the seafloor, animals like the giant tubeworm Riftia pachyptila …

Co-expression analysis reveals distinct alliances around two carbon fixation pathways in hydrothermal vent symbionts

JH Mitchell, AH Freedman, JA Delaney… - Nature Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Most autotrophic organisms possess a single carbon fixation pathway. The
chemoautotrophic symbionts of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila, however …

The identification of sulfide oxidation as a potential metabolism driving primary production on late Noachian Mars

MC Macey, M Fox-Powell, NK Ramkissoon… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The transition of the martian climate from the wet Noachian era to the dry Hesperian (4.1–3.0
Gya) likely resulted in saline surface waters that were rich in sulfur species. Terrestrial …

Microbial succession during the transition from active to inactive stages of deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfide chimneys

J Hou, SM Sievert, Y Wang, JS Seewald, VP Natarajan… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are highly productive biodiversity hotspots in the
deep ocean supported by chemosynthetic microorganisms. Prominent features of these …

Protistan grazing impacts microbial communities and carbon cycling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

SK Hu, EL Herrera, AR Smith, MG Pachiadaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Microbial eukaryotes (or protists) in marine ecosystems are a link between primary
producers and all higher trophic levels, and the rate at which heterotrophic protistan grazers …