ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2014
Biosphere frontiers of subsurface life in the sedimented hydrothermal system of Guaymas Basin.
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- Microbial anabolic and catabolic utilization of hydrocarbons in deep subseafloor sediments of Guaymas Basin.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Dynamics of carbon substrate competition among heterotrophic microorganisms.The ISME journal · 2024Article
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- Metagenomic profiles of archaea and bacteria within thermal and geochemical gradients of the Guaymas Basin deep subsurface.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Microbial gene expression in Guaymas Basin subsurface sediments responds to hydrothermal stress and energy limitation.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Well-hidden methanogenesis in deep, organic-rich sediments of Guaymas Basin.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Coexistence of Psychrophilic, Mesophilic, and Thermophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Deep Subsurface Aquifer Associated with Coal-Bed Methane Production.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Thermal Selection of Microbial Communities and Preservation of Microbial Function in Guaymas Basin Hydrothermal Sediments.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Potential for the anaerobic oxidation of benzene and naphthalene in thermophilic microorganisms from the Guaymas Basin.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Microbial Hydrocarbon Degradation in Guaymas Basin-Exploring the Roles and Potential Interactions of Fungi and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Formation of ethane and propane via abiotic reductive conversion of acetic acid in hydrothermal sediments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The Energetic Potential for Undiscovered Manganese Metabolisms in Nature.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Microbial Communities of Hydrothermal Guaymas Basin Surficial Sediment Profiled at 2 Millimeter-Scale Resolution.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Temperature is one of the key constraints on the spatial extent, physiological and phylogenetic diversity, and biogeochemical function of subsurface life. A model system to explore these interrelationships should offer a suitable range of geochemical regimes, carbon substrates and temperature gradients under which microbial life can generate energy and sustain itself. In this theory and hypothesis article, we make the case for the hydrothermally heated sediments of Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California as a suitable model system where extensive temperature and geochemical gradients create distinct niches for active microbial populations in the hydrothermally influenced sedimentary subsurface that in turn intercept and process hydrothermally generated carbon sources. We synthesize the evidence for high-temperature microbial methane cycling and sulfate reduction at Guaymas Basin - with an eye on sulfate-dependent oxidation of abundant alkanes - and demonstrate the energetic feasibility of these latter types of deep subsurface life in previously drilled Guaymas Basin locations of Deep-Sea Drilling Project 64.
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