Microbial communities living in deeply buried sediment may be adapted to long-term energy
limitation as they are removed from new detrital energy inputs for thousands to millions of …

Extreme environments are hostile for most organisms, but such habitats represent suitable
settings to be inhabited by specialized microorganisms. A marine shallow-water …

Diversity of fungi from deep biosphere is recently gaining an increasing attention. We
investigated fungal diversity in two sediment cores∼ 40cmbsf (cm below seafloor) at a depth …

Publisher Summary The chapter discusses various ways in which microbiological samples
can be obtained from deep-sea vents, and how these samples are processed for DNA …

Fungi are a highly diverse group of microbes that fundamentally influence the
biogeochemistry of the biosphere, but we currently know little about the diversity and …

The Naica Mine in northern Mexico is famous for its giant gypsum crystals, which may reach
up to 11 m long and contain fluid inclusions that might have captured microorganisms during …

Deep-sea fungi, the fungi that inhabit the sea and the sediment at depths of over 1000 m
below the surface, have become an important source of industrial, agricultural, and …

The phylogenetic diversity was determined for a microbial community obtained from an in
situ growth chamber placed on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (23° …

Shallow-water hydrothermal systems represent extreme environments with unique
biogeochemistry and high biological productivity, at which autotrophic microorganisms use …

Subsurface sediments of the Sonora Margin (Guaymas Basin), located in proximity of active
cold seep sites were explored. The taxonomic and functional diversity of bacterial and …