A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound organelles

JM Volland, S Gonzalez-Rizzo, O Gros, T Tyml… - Science, 2022 - science.org
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 …

Ecological and biotechnological relevance of Mediterranean hydrothermal vent systems

C Rizzo, E Arcadi, R Calogero, V Sciutteri, P Consoli… - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Marine hydrothermal systems are a special kind of extreme environments associated with
submarine volcanic activity and characterized by harsh chemo-physical conditions, in terms …

Microbial biofilms along a geochemical gradient at the shallow-water hydrothermal system of Vulcano island, Mediterranean Sea

V Sciutteri, F Smedile, S Vizzini, A Mazzola… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Shallow water hydrothermal vents represent highly dynamic environments where strong
geochemical gradients can shape microbial communities. Recently, these systems are …

Metaproteogenomic profiling of chemosynthetic microbial biofilms reveals metabolic flexibility during colonization of a shallow-water gas vent

S Patwardhan, F Smedile, D Giovannelli… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tor Caldara is a shallow-water gas vent located in the Mediterranean Sea, with active
venting of CO2 and H2S. At Tor Caldara, filamentous microbial biofilms, mainly composed of …

Ecological Succession of Sulfur-Oxidizing Epsilon- and Gammaproteobacteria During Colonization of a Shallow-Water Gas Vent

S Patwardhan, DI Foustoukos, D Giovannelli… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we integrated geochemical measurements, microbial diversity surveys and
physiological characterization of laboratory strains to investigate substrate-attached …

Identification and characterization of magnetotactic Gammaproteobacteria from a salt evaporation pool, Bohai Bay, China

P Liu, A Tamaxia, Y Liu, H Qiu, J Pan… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are phylogenetically diverse prokaryotes that can produce
intracellular chain‐assembled nanocrystals of magnetite (Fe3O4) or greigite (Fe3S4) …

Zoothamnium mariella sp. nov., a marine, colonial ciliate with an atypcial growth pattern, and its ectosymbiont Candidatus Fusimicrobium zoothamnicola gen. nov …

V Kendlbacher, TMR Winter, M Bright - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Ciliates are unicellular eukaryotes, regularly involved in symbiotic associations. Symbionts
may colonize the inside of their cells as well as their surface as ectosymbionts. Here, we …

The Genome of Varunaivibrio sulfuroxidans Strain TC8T, a Metabolically Versatile Alphaproteobacterium from the Tor Caldara Gas Vents in the Tyrrhenian Sea

S Patwardhan, J Phan, F Smedile, C Vetriani - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Varunaivibrio sulfuroxidans type strain TC8T is a mesophilic, facultatively anaerobic,
facultatively chemolithoautotrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from a sulfidic shallow …

Bacterial diversity and biogeochemistry of two marine shallow-water hydrothermal systems off dominica (Lesser Antilles)

P Pop Ristova, T Pichler, MW Friedrich… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Shallow-water hydrothermal systems represent extreme environments with unique
biogeochemistry and high biological productivity, at which autotrophic microorganisms use …

A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA compartmentalized in membrane-bound organelles

JM Volland, S Gonzalez-Rizzo, O Gros, T Tyml… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Cells of most bacterial species are around 2 µm in length, with some of the largest
specimens reaching 750 µm. Using fluorescence, x-ray, and electron microscopy in …