Whale-fall ecosystems: recent insights into ecology, paleoecology, and evolution

CR Smith, AG Glover, T Treude… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Whale falls produce remarkable organic-and sulfide-rich habitat islands at the seafloor. The
past decade has seen a dramatic increase in studies of modern and fossil whale remains …

New perspectives on the ecology and evolution of siboglinid tubeworms

A Hilario, M Capa, TG Dahlgren, KM Halanych… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Siboglinids are tube-dwelling annelids that are important members of deep-sea
chemosynthetic communities, which include hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls and …

Succession of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

EA Dubinsky, ME Conrad, R Chakraborty… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill produced large subsurface plumes of dispersed oil and gas
in the Gulf of Mexico that stimulated growth of psychrophilic, hydrocarbon degrading …

Natural volcanic CO2 seeps reveal future trajectories for host–microbial associations in corals and sponges

KM Morrow, DG Bourne, C Humphrey… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are rapidly rising causing an increase in the partial
pressure of CO2 (p CO2) in the ocean and a reduction in pH known as ocean acidification …

Natural gas and temperature structured a microbial community response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

MC Redmond, DL Valentine - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial communities present in the Gulf of Mexico rapidly responded to the Deepwater
Horizon oil spill. In deep water plumes, these communities were initially dominated by …

Specificity is rarely absolute in coral–algal symbiosis: implications for coral response to climate change

RN Silverstein, AMS Correa… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Some reef-building corals have been shown to respond to environmental change by shifting
the composition of their algal symbiont (genus Symbiodinium) communities. These shifts …

Water mass‐specificity of bacterial communities in the North Atlantic revealed by massively parallel sequencing

H Agogué, D Lamy, PR Neal, ML Sogin… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial assemblages from subsurface (100 m depth), meso‐(200–1000 m depth) and
bathy‐pelagic (below 1000 m depth) zones at 10 stations along a North Atlantic Ocean …

The effect of anthropogenic arsenic contamination on the earthworm microbiome

DA Pass, AJ Morgan, DS Read, D Field… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Earthworms are globally distributed and perform essential roles for soil health and microbial
structure. We have investigated the effect of an anthropogenic contamination gradient on the …

Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms

G Moggioli, B Panossian, Y Sun, D Thiel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial symbioses allow annelids to colonise extreme ecological niches, such as
hydrothermal vents and whale falls. Yet, the genetic principles sustaining these symbioses …

Deep-Sequencing Method for Quantifying Background Abundances of Symbiodinium Types: Exploring the Rare Symbiodinium Biosphere in Reef-Building Corals

KM Quigley, SW Davies, CD Kenkel, BL Willis… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The capacity of reef-building corals to associate with environmentally-appropriate types of
endosymbionts from the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium contributes significantly to their …