A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …

The anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulfate reduction is a microbially mediated
process requiring a syntrophic partnership between anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) …

The majority of life on Earth—notably, microbial life—occurs in places that do not receive
sunlight, with the habitats of the oceans being the largest of these reservoirs. Sunlight …

The aqueous alteration of ultramafic rocks through serpentinization liberates mantle carbon
and reducing power. Serpentinization occurs in numerous settings on present day Earth …

A wide array of microorganisms survive and thrive in extreme environments. However, we
know little about the patterns of, and controls over, their large-scale ecological distribution …

Hydrothermal circulation and alteration at mid-ocean ridges and ridge flanks have a key role
in regulating seawater chemistry and global chemical fluxes, and support diverse …

Freshwater wetlands are a major source of the greenhouse gas methane but at the same
time can function as carbon sink. Their response to global warming and environmental …

Technologies for massively parallel sequencing are revolutionizing microbial ecology and
are vastly increasing the scale of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene studies. Although …

Marine environmental monitoring has tended to focus on site-specific methods of
investigation. These traditional methods have low spatial and temporal resolution and are …