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Singer E, Chong LS, Heidelberg JF, et al. Similar Microbial Communities Found on Two Distant Seafloor Basalts. Front Microbiol. 2015;6:1409doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01409.
Singer, E., Chong, L. S., Heidelberg, J. F., & Edwards, K. J. (2015). Similar Microbial Communities Found on Two Distant Seafloor Basalts. Frontiers in microbiology, 61409. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01409
Singer, Esther, et al. "Similar Microbial Communities Found on Two Distant Seafloor Basalts." Frontiers in microbiology vol. 6 (2015): 1409. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01409
Singer E, Chong LS, Heidelberg JF, Edwards KJ. Similar Microbial Communities Found on Two Distant Seafloor Basalts. Front Microbiol. 2015 Dec 16;6:1409. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01409. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26733957; PMCID: PMC4679871.
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Front Microbiol. 2015 Dec 16;6:1409. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01409. eCollection 2015.

Similar Microbial Communities Found on Two Distant Seafloor Basalts.

Frontiers in microbiology

Esther Singer, Lauren S Chong, John F Heidelberg, Katrina J Edwards

Affiliations

  1. Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek CA, USA.
  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA.
  3. Department of Marine Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, USA.
  4. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los AngelesCA, USA; Department of Marine Environmental Biology, University of Southern California, Los AngelesCA, USA.

PMID: 26733957 PMCID: PMC4679871 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01409

Abstract

The oceanic crust forms two thirds of the Earth's surface and hosts a large phylogenetic and functional diversity of microorganisms. While advances have been made in the sedimentary realm, our understanding of the igneous rock portion as a microbial habitat has remained limited. We present the first comparative metagenomic microbial community analysis from ocean floor basalt environments at the Lō'ihi Seamount, Hawai'i, and the East Pacific Rise (EPR; 9°N). Phylogenetic analysis indicates the presence of a total of 43 bacterial and archaeal mono-phyletic groups, dominated by Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria, as well as Thaumarchaeota. Functional gene analysis suggests that these Thaumarchaeota play an important role in ammonium oxidation on seafloor basalts. In addition to ammonium oxidation, the seafloor basalt habitat reveals a wide spectrum of other metabolic potentials, including CO2 fixation, denitrification, dissimilatory sulfate reduction, and sulfur oxidation. Basalt communities from Lō'ihi and the EPR show considerable metabolic and phylogenetic overlap down to the genus level despite geographic distance and slightly different seafloor basalt mineralogy.

Keywords: metagenome; microbe-rock interactions; oceanic crust; seafloor basalt; thaumarchaeota

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