Desulfotomaculum spp. and related gram-positive sulfate-reducing bacteria in deep subsurface environments

T Aüllo, A Ranchou-Peyruse, B Ollivier… - Frontiers in …, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Gram-positive spore-forming sulfate reducers and particularly members of the genus
Desulfotomaculum are commonly found in the subsurface biosphere by culture based and …

The microbiology of hydrocarbon degradation in subsurface petroleum reservoirs: perspectives and prospects

WFM Röling, IM Head, SR Larter - Research in Microbiology, 2003‏ - Elsevier
The majority of the Earth's petroleum resource is partly biodegraded. This is of considerable
practical significance and can limit economic exploitation of petroleum reserves and lead to …

Subscribed content calcium carbonate precipitation by ureolytic subsurface bacteria

Y Fujita, FG Ferris, RD Lawson, FS Colwell… - Geomicrobiology …, 2000‏ - Taylor & Francis
Coprecipitation in carbonate minerals offers a means of slowing the transport of divalent
radionuclides and contaminant metals (eg, 90Sr2+, UO2+, Co2+) in the subsurface. It may …

Identification and removal of contaminant sequences from ribosomal gene databases: lessons from the census of deep life

CS Sheik, BK Reese, KI Twing, JB Sylvan… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Earth's subsurface environment is one of the largest, yet least studied, biomes on Earth, and
many questions remain regarding what microorganisms are indigenous to the subsurface …

Pore‐size constraints on the activity and survival of subsurface bacteria in a late cretaceous shale‐sandstone sequence, northwestern New Mexico

JK Fredrickson, JP McKinley, BN Bjornstad… - Geomicrobiology …, 1997‏ - Taylor & Francis
To investigate the distribution of microbial biomass and activities to gain insights into the
physical controls on microbial activity and potential long‐term survival in the subsurface, 24 …

Microbial biocenoses in pristine aquifers and an assessment of investigative methods

N Goldscheider, D Hunkeler, P Rossi - Hydrogeology Journal, 2006‏ - Springer
The current knowledge of microbial biocenoses (communities) in pristine aquifers is
presented in a review, which also discusses their relevance for questions of groundwater …

Preservation records of micro-organisms: evidence of the tenacity of life

MJ Kennedy, SL Reader, LM Swierczynski - Microbiology, 1994‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
This initial development of the field was followed by a relatively quiet period, until Lipman (1
928, 1931) claimed to have revived micro-organisms from ancient rocks and coal hundreds …

Expanding frontiers in deep subsurface microbiology

JP Amend, A Teske - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2005‏ - Elsevier
The subsurface biosphere on Earth appears to be far more expansive and physiologically
and phylogenetically complex than previously thought. Here, several aspects of subsurface …

Nature and extent of the deep biosphere

FS Colwell, S D'Hondt - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2013‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the last three decades we have learned a great deal about microbes in subsurface
environments. Once, these habitats were rarely examined, perhaps because so much of the …

Trends in basalt and sediment core contamination during IODP Expedition 301

MA Lever, M Alperin, B Engelen, F Inagaki… - Geomicrobiology …, 2006‏ - Taylor & Francis
Perfluorocarbon tracers (PFTs) are used during cruises of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
and Integrated Ocean Program (IODP) to measure sample contamination with drilling fluid …