Almost the entire seafloor is covered with sediments that can be more than 10 000 m thick
and represent a vast microbial ecosystem that is a major component of Earth's element and …

The sulfur cycle is an important, although understudied facet of today's modern oxygen
minimum zones (OMZs). Sulfur cycling is most active in highly productive coastal OMZs …

Cells of most bacterial species are around 2 micrometers in length, with some of the largest
specimens reaching 750 micrometers. Using fluorescence, x-ray, and electron microscopy in …

Hosts of chemoautotrophic bacteria typically have much higher biomass than their
symbionts and consume symbiont cells for nutrition. In contrast to this, chemoautotrophic …

Very few bacteria are able to fix carbon via both the reverse tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) and the
Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycles, such as symbiotic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria that are …

Marinimicrobia bacteria are widespread in subeuphotic areas of the oceans and particularly
abundant in oxygen minimum zones (OMZs). Information on Marinimicrobia metabolism is …

Most autotrophs use the Calvin–Benson–Bassham (CBB) cycle for carbon fixation. In
contrast, all currently described autotrophs from the Campylobacterota (previously …

Phenotypic plasticity of microbial cells has attracted much attention and several research
efforts have been dedicated to the description of methods aiming at characterizing …

Filamentous large sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (FLSB) of the family Beggiatoaceae are globally
distributed aquatic bacteria that can control geochemical fluxes from the sediment to the …

The release of 700 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a few months in 2010
produced dramatic changes in the microbial ecology of the water and sediment. Here, we …