The microbiomes of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: distributed globally, shaped locally

GJ Dick - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of chemosynthetic ecosystems at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in 1977
changed our view of biology. Chemosynthetic bacteria and archaea form the foundation of …

Impacts of deep‐sea mining on microbial ecosystem services

BN Orcutt, JA Bradley, WJ Brazelton… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in extracting mineral resources from the seafloor through deep‐sea mining has
accelerated in the past decade, driven by consumer demand for various metals like zinc …

Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

DW Waite, I Vanwonterghem, C Rinke… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The Epsilonproteobacteria is the fifth validly described class of the phylum Proteobacteria,
known primarily for clinical relevance and for chemolithotrophy in various terrestrial and …

Niche partitioning of diverse sulfur-oxidizing bacteria at hydrothermal vents

DV Meier, P Pjevac, W Bach, S Hourdez… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
At deep-sea hydrothermal vents, primary production is carried out by chemolithoautotrophic
microorganisms, with the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds being a major driver for …

A hydrogenotrophic Sulfurimonas is globally abundant in deep-sea oxygen-saturated hydrothermal plumes

M Molari, C Hassenrueck, R Laso-Pérez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Members of the bacterial genus Sulfurimonas (phylum Campylobacterota) dominate
microbial communities in marine redoxclines and are important for sulfur and nitrogen …

Virus diversity and interactions with hosts in deep-sea hydrothermal vents

R Cheng, X Li, L Jiang, L Gong, C Geslin, Z Shao - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background The deep sea harbors many viruses, yet their diversity and interactions with
hosts in hydrothermal ecosystems are largely unknown. Here, we analyzed the viral …

Microbial community structure of hydrothermal deposits from geochemically different vent fields along the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

GE Flores, JH Campbell, JD Kirshtein… - Environmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate the effects of local fluid geochemistry on microbial communities associated with
active hydrothermal vent deposits, we examined the archaeal and bacterial communities of …

Active submarine eruption of boninite in the northeastern Lau Basin

JA Resing, KH Rubin, RW Embley, JE Lupton… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Subduction of oceanic crust and the formation of volcanic arcs above the subduction zone
are important components in Earth's geological and geochemical cycles. Subduction …

How deep-sea wood falls sustain chemosynthetic life

C Bienhold, P Pop Ristova, F Wenzhöfer, T Dittmar… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Large organic food falls to the deep sea–such as whale carcasses and wood logs–are
known to serve as stepping stones for the dispersal of highly adapted chemosynthetic …

Life and death of deep-sea vents: bacterial diversity and ecosystem succession on inactive hydrothermal sulfides

JB Sylvan, BM Toner, KJ Edwards - MBio, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hydrothermal chimneys are a globally dispersed habitat on the seafloor associated with mid-
ocean ridge (MOR) spreading centers. Active, hot, venting sulfide structures from MORs …