Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

H Imachi, MK Nobu, N Nakahara, Y Morono… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The origin of eukaryotes remains unclear,,–. Current data suggest that eukaryotes may have
emerged from an archaeal lineage known as 'Asgard'archaea,. Despite the eukaryote-like …

Hadal biosphere: insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth

T Nunoura, Y Takaki, M Hirai… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Hadal oceans at water depths below 6,000 m are the least-explored aquatic biosphere. The
Challenger Deep, located in the western equatorial Pacific, with a water depth of∼ 11 km, is …

Microbial community and geochemical analyses of trans-trench sediments for understanding the roles of hadal environments

S Hiraoka, M Hirai, Y Matsui, A Makabe… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Hadal trench bottom (> 6000 m below sea level) sediments harbor higher microbial cell
abundance compared with adjacent abyssal plain sediments. This is supported by the …

Diverse sulfate-reducing bacteria of the Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus clade are the key alkane degraders at marine seeps

S Kleindienst, FA Herbst, M Stagars… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Biogeochemical and microbiological data indicate that the anaerobic oxidation of non-
methane hydrocarbons by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) has an important role in carbon …

Persistence of plastic debris and its colonization by bacterial communities after two decades on the abyssal seafloor

S Krause, M Molari, EV Gorb, SN Gorb, E Kossel… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The fate of plastic debris entering the oceans is largely unconstrained. Currently, intensified
research is devoted to the abiotic and microbial degradation of plastic floating near the …

Methane-metabolizing microbial communities in sediments of the Haima cold seep area, northwest slope of the South China Sea

M Niu, X Fan, G Zhuang, Q Liang… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cold seeps are widespread chemosynthetic ecosystems in the deep-sea environment, and
cold seep microbial communities of the South China Sea are poorly constrained. Here we …

Bacterial and archaeal communities in sediments of the north Chinese marginal seas

J Liu, X Liu, M Wang, Y Qiao, Y Zheng, XH Zhang - Microbial Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Microbial communities of the Chinese marginal seas have rarely been reported. Here,
bacterial and archaeal community structures and abundance in the surface sediment of four …

Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal …

H Imachi, MK Nobu, S Kato, Y Takaki… - … of Systematic and …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
An anaerobic, mesophilic, syntrophic, archaeon strain MK-D1T, was isolated as a pure co-
culture with Methanogenium sp. strain MK-MG from deep-sea methane seep sediment. This …

Microbial diversity of two cold seep systems in gas hydrate-bearing sediments in the South China Sea

H Cui, X Su, F Chen, M Holland, S Yang, J Liang… - Marine Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cold seep is a unique habitat for microorganisms in deep marine sediments, and microbial
communities and biogeochemical processes are still poorly understood, especially in …

Microbial diversity in sediments from the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the Mariana Trench

T Nunoura, M Nishizawa, M Hirai… - Microbes and …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract The Challenger Deep is the deepest ocean on Earth. The present study
investigated microbial community structures and geochemical cycles associated with the …