Seasonal shifts in community composition and proteome expression in a sulphur‐cycling cyanobacterial mat

SL Grim, DG Stuart, P Aron, NE Levin… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal changes in light and physicochemical conditions have strong impacts on
cyanobacteria, but how they affect community structure, metabolism, and biogeochemistry of …

Genomic and functional investigations into seasonally-impacted and morphologically-distinct anoxygenic photosynthetic cyanobacterial mats

S Grim - 2019 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Cyanobacteria are key members of modern photosynthetic microbial mats, by providing
organic matter and nutrients to the ecosystem. With their innovation of oxygenic …

Omics-Inferred Partitioning and Expression of Diverse Biogeochemical Functions in a Low-O2 Cyanobacterial Mat Community

SL Grim, AA Voorhies, BA Biddanda, S Jain, SC Nold… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cyanobacterial mats profoundly influenced Earth's biological and geochemical evolution
and still play important ecological roles in the modern world. However, the biogeochemical …

Cyanobacterial life at low O2: community genomics and function reveal metabolic versatility and extremely low diversity in a Great Lakes sinkhole mat

AA Voorhies, BA Biddanda, ST Kendall, S Jain… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are renowned as the mediators of Earth's oxygenation. However, little is
known about the cyanobacterial communities that flourished under the low‐O2 conditions …

Versatile photophysiology of compositionally similar cyanobacterial mat communities inhabiting submerged sinkholes of Lake Huron

MJ Snider, BA Biddanda, M Lindback, SL Grim… - Aquatic Microbial …, 2017 - int-res.com
Recently discovered submerged sinkholes in Lake Huron are high-sulfur, low-oxygen
extreme environments for microbial life. In order to understand the relationship between the …

Versatile cyanobacteria control the timing and extent of sulfide production in a Proterozoic analog microbial mat

JM Klatt, GV Gomez-Saez, S Meyer… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacterial mats were hotspots of biogeochemical cycling during the Precambrian.
However, mechanisms that controlled O2 release by these ecosystems are poorly …

Cyanobacteria in sulfidic spring microbial mats can perform oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis simultaneously during an entire diurnal period

JM Klatt, D De Beer, S Häusler… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We used microsensors to study the regulation of anoxygenic and oxygenic photosynthesis
(AP and OP, respectively) by light and sulfide in a cyanobacterium dominating microbial …

Groundwater shapes sediment biogeochemistry and microbial diversity in a submerged Great Lake sinkhole

LE Kinsman‐Costello, CS Sheik, ND Sheldon… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
For a large part of earth's history, cyanobacterial mats thrived in low‐oxygen conditions, yet
our understanding of their ecological functioning is limited. Extant cyanobacterial mats …

Effect of temperature on photosynthesis, oxygen consumption and sulfide production in an extremely hypersaline cyanobacterial mat

RMM Abed, L Polerecky, M Al Najjar… - Aquatic Microbial …, 2006 - int-res.com
We used microsensors to study short-term temperature effects on gross photosynthesis,
oxygen consumption and sulfate reduction in an extremely hypersaline (salinity 200‰) …

Sulfate reduction and thiosulfate transformations in a cyanobacterial mat during a diel oxygen cycle

BB Jørgensen - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial sulfate reduction and transformations of thiosulfate were studied with radiotracers
in a Microcoleus chthonoplastes-dominated microbial mat growing in a hypersaline pond at …