Deep-sea biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable

R Danovaro, JB Company, C Corinaldesi, G D'Onghia… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of
their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of …

Archaea in organic-lean and organic-rich marine subsurface sediments: an environmental gradient reflected in distinct phylogenetic lineages

AM Durbin, A Teske - Frontiers in microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Examining the patterns of archaeal diversity in little-explored organic-lean marine
subsurface sediments presents an opportunity to study the association of phylogenetic …

Anaerobic oxidation of ethane by archaea from a marine hydrocarbon seep

SC Chen, N Musat, OJ Lechtenfeld, H Paschke… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Ethane is the second most abundant component of natural gas in addition to methane, and—
similar to methane—is chemically unreactive. The biological consumption of ethane under …

Rhodobacteraceae are the key members of the microbial community of the initial biofilm formed in Eastern Mediterranean coastal seawater

H Elifantz, G Horn, M Ayon, Y Cohen… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The formation of biofilms and biofouling is a common feature in aquatic environments. The
aim of this study was to identify the primary colonizers of biofilm formed in Eastern …

Diverse, uncultivated bacteria and archaea underlying the cycling of dissolved protein in the ocean

WD Orsi, JM Smith, S Liu, Z Liu, CM Sakamoto… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) supports a significant amount of heterotrophic production
in the ocean. Yet, to date, the identity and diversity of microbial groups that transform DON …

Bacterial diversity of water and sediment in the Changjiang estuary and coastal area of the East China Sea

BW Feng, XR Li, JH Wang, ZY Hu… - FEMS microbiology …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The Changjiang estuary and the coastal area of the East China Sea (ECS) represent
important interfaces of terrestrial and marine environments. This study included analyses of …

Diversity and biogeography of bathyal and abyssal seafloor bacteria

C Bienhold, L Zinger, A Boetius, A Ramette - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The deep ocean floor covers more than 60% of the Earth's surface, and hosts diverse
bacterial communities with important functions in carbon and nutrient cycles. The …

Variations in archaeal and bacterial diversity associated with the sulfate-methane transition zone in continental margin sediments (Santa Barbara Basin, California)

BK Harrison, H Zhang, W Berelson… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
The sulfate-methane transition zone (SMTZ) is a widespread feature of continental margins,
representing a diffusion-controlled interface where there is enhanced microbial activity …

Airborne bacterial populations above desert soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

EM Bottos, AC Woo, P Zawar-Reza, SB Pointing… - Microbial ecology, 2014 - Springer
Bacteria are assumed to disperse widely via aerosolized transport due to their small size
and resilience. The question of microbial endemicity in isolated populations is directly …

Biodiversity of cold seep ecosystems along the European margins

A Vanreusel, ANNC ANdERSEN, A BoETIUS… - Oceanography, 2009 - JSTOR
ABSTRACT During the European Commission's Framework Six Programme, HERMES, we
investigated three main areas along the European margin, each characterized by the …