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| Ciobanu, Maria Cristina; Burgaud, Gaetan; Dufresne, Alexis; Breuker, Anja; Redou, Vanessa; Ben Maamar, Sarah; Gaboyer, Frederic; Vandenabeele-trambouze, Odile; Lipp, Julius Sebastian; Schippers, Axel; Vandenkoornhuyse, Philippe; Barbier, Georges; Jebbar, Mohamed; Godfroy, Anne; Alain, Karine. |
| The subsurface realm is colonized by microbial communities to depths of >1000 meters below the seafloor (m.b.sf.), but little is known about overall diversity and microbial distribution patterns at the most profound depths. Here we show that not only Bacteria and Archaea but also Eukarya occur at record depths in the subseafloor of the Canterbury Basin. Shifts in microbial community composition along a core of nearly 2 km reflect vertical taxa zonation influenced by sediment depth. Representatives of some microbial taxa were also cultivated using methods mimicking in situ conditions. These results suggest that diverse microorganisms persist down to 1922 m.b.sf. in the seafloor of the Canterbury Basin and extend the previously known depth limits of... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep biosphere; Subsurface life; Eukaryote; Record depth. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00201/31243/29895.pdf |
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| Han, Yuchen; Gonnella, Giorgio; Adam, Nicole; Schippers, Axel; Burkhardt, Lia; Kurtz, Stefan; Schwarz-schampera, Ulrich; Franke, Henrike; Perner, Mirjam. |
| To assess the risk that mining of seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) from extinct hydrothermal vent environments has for changing the ecosystem irreversibly, we sampled SMS analogous habitats from the Kairei and the Pelagia vent fields along the Indian Ridge. In total 19.8 million 16S rRNA tags from 14 different sites were analyzed and the microbial communities were compared with each other and with publicly available data sets from other marine environments. The chimneys appear to provide habitats for microorganisms that are not found or only detectable in very low numbers in other marine habitats. The chimneys also host rare organisms and may function as a vital part of the ocean’s seed bank. Many of the reads from active and inactive chimney samples were... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00449/56079/57603.pdf |
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