ArticleMicrobiologyOpen2015
Biodiversity hot spot on a hot spot: novel extremophile diversity in Hawaiian fumaroles.
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- Islands Within Islands: Bacterial Phylogenetic Structure and Consortia in Hawaiian Lava Caves and Fumaroles.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Sasso Pisano Geothermal Field Environment Harbours DiverseMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- Shaping of the Present-Day Deep Biosphere at Chicxulub by the Impact Catastrophe That Ended the Cretaceous.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Basaltic Terrains in Idaho and Hawai'i as Planetary Analogs for Mars Geology and Astrobiology.Astrobiology · 2019Article
- A Low-Diversity Microbiota Inhabits Extreme Terrestrial Basaltic Terrains and Their Fumaroles: Implications for the Exploration of Mars.Astrobiology · 2019Article
- The bacterial diversity on steam vents from Paricutín and Sapichu volcanoes.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2019Article
- Bacterial diversity in fumarole environments of the Paricutín volcano, Michoacán (Mexico).Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2017Article
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Abstract
Fumaroles (steam vents) are the most common, yet least understood, microbial habitat in terrestrial geothermal settings. Long believed too extreme for life, recent advances in sample collection and DNA extraction methods have found that fumarole deposits and subsurface waters harbor a considerable diversity of viable microbes. In this study, we applied culture-independent molecular methods to explore fumarole deposit microbial assemblages in 15 different fumaroles in four geographic locations on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Just over half of the vents yielded sufficient high-quality DNA for the construction of 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence clone libraries. The bacterial clone libraries contained sequences belonging to 11 recognized bacterial divisions and seven other division-level phylogenetic groups. Archaeal sequences were less numerous, but similarly diverse. The taxonomic composition among fumarole deposits was highly heterogeneous. Phylogenetic analysis found cloned fumarole sequences were related to microbes identified from a broad array of globally distributed ecotypes, including hot springs, terrestrial soils, and industrial waste sites. Our results suggest that fumarole deposits function as an "extremophile collector" and may be a hot spot of novel extremophile biodiversity.
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