[HTML][HTML] Photoferrotrophy: remains of an ancient photosynthesis in modern environments

A Camacho, XA Walter, A Picazo, J Zopfi - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Photoferrotrophy, the process by which inorganic carbon is fixed into organic matter using
light as an energy source and reduced iron [Fe (II)] as an electron donor, has been proposed …

[HTML][HTML] Production and consumption of methane in freshwater lake ecosystems

G Borrel, D Jézéquel, C Biderre-Petit… - Research in …, 2011 - Elsevier
The atmospheric concentration of methane (CH4), a major greenhouse gas, is mainly
controlled by the activities of methane-producing (methanogens) and methane-consuming …

Methane-and sulfur-metabolizing microbial communities dominate the Lost City hydrothermal field ecosystem

WJ Brazelton, MO Schrenk, DS Kelley… - Applied and …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hydrothermal venting and the formation of carbonate chimneys in the Lost City hydrothermal
field (LCHF) are driven predominantly by serpentinization reactions and cooling of mantle …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of pyrite formation promoted by sulfate-reducing bacteria in pure culture

A Duverger, JS Berg, V Busigny, F Guyot… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pyrite, or iron disulfide, is the most common sulfide mineral on the Earth's surface and is
widespread through the geological record. Because sulfides are mainly produced by sulfate …

Diversity and abundance of sulfate‐reducing microorganisms in the sulfate and methane zones of a marine sediment, Black Sea

J Leloup, A Loy, NJ Knab, C Borowski… - Environmental …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Black Sea, with its highly sulfidic water column, is the largest anoxic basin in
the world. Within its sediments, the mineralization of organic matter occurs essentially …

Sulfate‐reducing bacteria in marine sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark): abundance and diversity related to geochemical zonation

J Leloup, H Fossing, K Kohls… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In order to better understand the main factors that influence the distribution of sulfate‐
reducing bacteria (SRB), their population size and their metabolic activity in high‐and low …

The methane cycle in ferruginous Lake Matano

SA Crowe, S Katsev, K Leslie, A Sturm, C Magen… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In Lake Matano, Indonesia, the world's largest known ferruginous basin, more than
50% of authigenic organic matter is degraded through methanogenesis, despite high …

Biomineralization of iron-phosphates in the water column of Lake Pavin (Massif Central, France)

J Cosmidis, K Benzerara, G Morin, V Busigny… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The availabilities of iron and phosphorus have considerably impacted biological productivity
in past and present natural aquatic environments, and therefore have been key regulators of …

Resistance, resilience and recovery: aquatic bacterial dynamics after water column disturbance

A Shade, JS Read, DG Welkie, TK Kratz… - Environmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For lake microbes, water column mixing acts as a disturbance because it homogenizes
thermal and chemical gradients known to define the distributions of microbial taxa. Our first …

Identification of microbial communities involved in the methane cycle of a freshwater meromictic lake

C Biderre-Petit, D Jézéquel… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Lake Pavin is a meromictic crater lake located in the French Massif Central area. In this
ecosystem, most methane (CH4) produced in high quantity in the anoxic bottom layers, and …