Here we demonstrate substantial enrichments of mercury and methylmercury, along with the presence of microbes capable of metabolizing mercury in sediments of the Haima cold seep, South China Sea, by analyzing mercury and methylmercury concentrations, mercury isotopic composition analyses and metagenomic ...
www.nature.com/ismej ARTICLE OPEN Viruses in deep-sea cold seep sediments harbor diverse survival mechanisms and remain genetically conserved within species Yongyi Peng 1,2, Zijian Lu3, Donald Pan4, Ling-Dong Shi5, Zhao Zhao2,6, Qing Liu2, Chuwen Zhang 1, Kuntong Jia2, Jiwei Li7, ...
Deep sea cold seep sediments host abundant and diverse microbial populations that significantly influence biogeochemical cycles. While numerous studies have revealed their community structure and functional capabilities, little is known about genetic heterogeneity within species. Here, we examine intraspecies d...
To isolate the novel bacterium, the team took sediment samples from a deep-sea cold seep, where Planctomycetes bacteria are known to reside, and then encouraged their growth by supplementing a standard growth medium with the antibiotic rifampicin and sources of nitrogen. They cultured these enriched...
Cold seep and hydrothermal vent system have unique function in mass circulation of the earth, and have been explored by in situ detection technologies in past decades. A brief review on the development and the newest applications of in situ laser spectroscopy for deep sea research is presented ...
Konishi M, Fukuoka T, Nagahama T, Morita T, Imura T, Kitamoto D, Hatada Y (2010) Biosurfactant-producing yeast isolated from Calyptogena soyoae (deep-sea cold-seep clam) in the deep sea. J Biosci Bioeng 110:169–175 View Article...
Evolutionary relationships of deep-sea vent and seep clams (Mollusca: Vesicomyidae) of the 'pacifica/lepta' species complex Vesicomyid clams are among the dominant invertebrates of chemosynthesis-based communities found at deep-sea cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, yet there is... S Goffredi,L ...
Characterization of a deep-sea microbial mat from an active cold seep at the Milano mud volcano in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea A white, filamentous microbial mat at the Milano mud volcano in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea was sampled during the Medinaut cruise of the R/V Nadir in ... SK ...
In the deep-sea cold seep sediments that are impacted by darkness, low temperatures, and high hydrostatic pressure, growth of microbiomes consuming rich hydrocarbons is also supposed to be nitrogen limited. Biological nitrogen fixation is one main source of bioavailable nitrogen, offsetting localized ...
Zero-valent sulfur (ZVS) has been shown to be a major sulfur intermediate in the deep-sea cold seep of the South China Sea based on our previous work, however, the microbial contribution to the formation of ZVS in cold seep has remained unclear. Here, we describe a novel thiosulfate ...