Microbial dissimilatory sulfate reduction to sulfide is a predominant terminal pathway of
organic matter mineralization in the anoxic seabed. Chemical or microbial oxidation of the …

Almost the entire seafloor is covered with sediments that can be more than 10 000 m thick
and represent a vast microbial ecosystem that is a major component of Earth's element and …

Seamounts are globally distributed across the oceans and form one of the major oceanic
biomes. Here, we utilized combined analyses of bulk metagenome and virome to study viral …

Stable-isotope probing is widely used to study the function of microbial taxa in their natural
environment, but sorting of isotopically labelled microbial cells from complex samples for …

The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

Human civilization relies on estuaries, and many estuarine ecosystem services are provided
by microbial communities. These services include high rates of primary production that …

The microbial community composition and biogeochemical dynamics of coastal permeable
(sand) sediments differs from cohesive (mud) sediments. Tide-and wave-driven …

To date, very little is known about the bacterial core community of marine sediments. Here
we study the environmental distribution, abundance and ecogenomics of the …

The gradient distribution of microbial communities has been detected in profiles along many
natural environments. In a mangrove seedlings inhabited mudflat, the microbes drive a …

Current understanding of amino acid (AA) degraders in anaerobic digesters is mainly based
on cultured species, whereas microorganisms that play important roles in a complex …