ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2013
Microbial communities associated with ferromanganese nodules and the surrounding sediments.
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- Microbial Community Diversity Within Sediments from Two Geographically Separated Hadal Trenches.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Deep-sea anthropogenic macrodebris harbours rich and diverse communities of bacteria and archaea.PloS one · 2018Article
- Polymetallic nodules, sediments, and deep waters in the equatorial North Pacific exhibit highly diverse and distinct bacterial, archaeal, and microeukaryotic communities.MicrobiologyOpen · 2017Article
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- Archaeal and bacterial communities in deep-sea hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts on old seamounts of the northwestern Pacific.PloS one · 2017Article
- Potential Mechanisms for Microbial Energy Acquisition in Oxic Deep-Sea Sediments.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- Identification of a Third Mn(II) Oxidase Enzyme in Pseudomonas putida GB-1.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- Characterization of bacterial diversity associated with deep sea ferromanganese nodules from the South China Sea.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2015Article
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Abstract
The formation and maintenance of deep-sea ferromanganese/polymetallic nodules still remains a mystery 140 years after their discovery. The wealth of rare metals concentrated in these nodules has spurred global interest in exploring the mining potential of these resources. The prevailing theory of abiotic formation has been called into question and the role of microbial metabolisms in nodule development is now an area of active research. To understand the community structure of microbes associated with nodules and their surrounding sediment, we performed targeted sequencing of the V4 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene from three nodules collected from the central South Pacific. Results have shown that the microbial communities of the nodules are significantly distinct from the communities in the surrounding sediments, and that the interiors of the nodules harbor communities different from the exterior. This suggests not only differences in potential metabolisms between the nodule and sediment communities, but also differences in the dominant metabolisms of interior and exterior communities. We identified several operational taxonomic units (OTUs) unique to both the nodule and sediment environments. The identified OTUs were assigned putative taxonomic identifications, including two OTUs only found associated with the nodules, which were assigned to the α-Proteobacteria. Finally, we explored the diversity of the most assigned taxonomic group, the Thaumarchaea MG-1, which revealed novel OTUs compared to previous research from the region and suggests a potential role as a source of fixed carbon for ammonia oxidizing archaea in the environment.
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