Oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis in a microbial mat from an anoxic and sulfidic spring

D de Beer, M Weber, A Chennu… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis were studied with microsensors in microbial mats
found at 9‐10 m depth in anoxic and sulfidic water in Little Salt Spring (Florida, USA). The …

Microbially mediated sulphide production in a thermal, acidic algal mat community in Yellowstone National Park

MJ Ferris, TS Magnuson, JA Fagg… - Environmental …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Our objective in this study was to characterize prokaryotic sulphide production within the
oxygenic, predominantly eukaryotic algal mat in an acidic stream, Nymph Creek, in …

Competition for sulfide among colorless and purple sulfur bacteria in cyanobacterial mats

BB Jørgensen, DJ Des Marais - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 1986 - academic.oup.com
The vertical zonation of light, O2, H2S, pH, and sulfur bacteria was studied in two benthic
cyanobacterial mats from hypersaline ponds at Guerrero Negro, baja California, Mexico. The …

A benthic gradient chamber for culturing phototrophic sulfur bacteria on reconstituted sediments

O Pringault, R de Wit, P Caumette - FEMS microbiology ecology, 1996 - academic.oup.com
The growth of phototrophic sulfur bacteria in benthic systems is restricted to well-defined
layers within the sedimentary oxygen, sulfide, pH and light gradients. In order to culture …

Low-light anoxygenic photosynthesis and Fe-S-biogeochemistry in a microbial mat

S Haas, D De Beer, JM Klatt, A Fink… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
We report extremely low-light-adapted anoxygenic photosynthesis in a thick microbial mat in
Magical Blue Hole, Abaco Island, The Bahamas. Sulfur cycling was reduced by iron oxides …

Physiology of purple sulfur bacteria forming macroscopic aggregates in Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh, Massachusetts

AP Seitz, TH Nielsen, J Overmann - FEMS microbiology ecology, 1993 - academic.oup.com
Purple bacterial aggregates found in tidal pools of Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh (Falmouth,
Cape Cod, MA) were investigated in order to elucidate the ecological significance of cell …

Competition between anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and colorless sulfur bacteria in a microbial mat

PT Visscher, FP van den Ende… - FEMS Microbiology …, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The populations of chemolithoautotrophic (colorless) sulfur bacteria and
anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria were enumerated in a marine microbial mat. The highest …

Obligately phototrophic Chloroflexus: primary production in anaerobic hot spring microbial mats

SJ Giovannoni, NP Revsbech, DM Ward… - Archives of …, 1987 - Springer
Microbial mats which lack cyanobacteria occur at 50° to 65° C in the sulfide-containing
Mammoth Springs of Yellowstone National Park. The principal organisms within these mats …

Structure and function of natural sulphide-oxidizing microbial mats under dynamic input of light and chemical energy

JM Klatt, S Meyer, S Häusler, JL Macalady… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We studied the interaction between phototrophic and chemolithoautotrophic sulphide-
oxidizing microorganisms in natural microbial mats forming in sulphidic streams. The …

Biogeochemistry of an iron-rich hypersaline microbial mat (Camargue, France)

A Wieland, J Zopfi, M Benthien, M Kühl - Microbial Ecology, 2005 - Springer
In situ microsensor measurements were combined with biogeochemical methods to
determine oxygen, sulfur, and carbon cycling in microbial mats growing in a solar saltern …