Cold seeps are shallow areas on the ocean floor where gases percolate through underlying rock and sediment layers and emerge on the ocean bottom. From: Geological Controls for Gas Hydrate Formations and Unconventionals, 2016 About this pageSet alert ...
Definition Cold seepage denotes the emission at the seafloor of deep-sourced fluids enriched in methane and hydrogen sulfide, which support a characteristic biome based on chemosynthetic organisms.Basic process Oxygen enters the ocean surface water through contact with the atmosphere. From there, ...
number of antiviral systems is positively correlated with the genome size for each MAG (linear regression; R2 = 0.27, p = 4.73 × 10−5; Fig. 1b), similar to previous observations on the importance of genome size for encoding accessory systems in prokaryotes or ocean microbiomes [8, 34...
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Full size image In this study, we use a sedimentary record from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) on the Eirik Drift off southern Greenland (site U1307; Fig.1) to indirectly assess the dynamics of the GIS during the mPWP. The Eirik Drift is a contourite drift moulded by the...
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whereas theP. resedaeformissamples obtained from the deep sea showed much more diversity (Fig.2, Table2). Because we were unable to sample at equivalent depths, we cannot separate differences based on species versus those due to depth or ocean basin, but mention this as a potential trend. ...
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Multiple cyanobacterial dia- zotrophs are responsible for a substantial portion of new nitrogen input in the surface ocean21–24. Various diazotrophs are also active in both surface and deeper waters, including diverse heterotrophic Proteobacteria25–28. Over the past decade, the deep benthos has ...
Microbial transformation of As has been well documented and characterized in environments such as ocean water, groundwater and geothermal springs, but the knowledge on gene- and genome-level As cycling in deep sea (e.g. cold seep) is limited. Our study demonstrated that As methylation and cytop...