ArticleScience advances2018
Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex.
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- Subsurface microbiology and the pressing societal need to support future exploration.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Review
- Topography of the subducting basement throughout the entire Nankai Trough.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Well-hidden methanogenesis in deep, organic-rich sediments of Guaymas Basin.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Earthquake-enhanced dissolved carbon cycles in ultra-deep ocean sediments.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Characterization of archaeal and bacterial communities thriving in methane-seeping on-land mud volcanoes, Niigata, Japan.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023Article
- Deep Subseafloor Biogeochemical Processes and Microbial Populations Potentially Associated with the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake at the Japan Trench Accretionary Wedge (IODP Expedition 343).Microbes and environments · 2023Article
- Methanogen activity and microbial diversity in Gulf of Cádiz mud volcano sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Controls on the isotopic composition of microbial methane.Science advances · 2022Article
- Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Subduction hides high-pressure sources of energy that may feed the deep subsurface biosphere.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Discharge of deeply rooted fluids from submarine mud volcanism in the Taiwan accretionary prism.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Metabolic potential of uncultured bacteria and archaea associated with petroleum seepage in deep-sea sediments.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Three-Source Partitioning of Methane Emissions from Paddy Soil: Linkage to Methanogenic Community Structure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
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- Cultivable microbial community in 2-km-deep, 20-million-year-old subseafloor coalbeds through ~1000 days anaerobic bioreactor cultivation.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Origin of Short-Chain Organic Acids in Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes of the Mariana Convergent Margin.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Archaeal Communities in Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Underneath the Deccan Traps, India.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Deep-Sourced Fluids From a Convergent Margin Host Distinct Subseafloor Microbial Communities That Change Upon Mud Flow Expulsion.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Microbial life inhabiting subseafloor sediments plays an important role in Earth's carbon cycle. However, the impact of geodynamic processes on the distributions and carbon-cycling activities of subseafloor life remains poorly constrained. We explore a submarine mud volcano of the Nankai accretionary complex by drilling down to 200 m below the summit. Stable isotopic compositions of water and carbon compounds, including clumped methane isotopologues, suggest that ~90% of methane is microbially produced at 16° to 30°C and 300 to 900 m below seafloor, corresponding to the basin bottom, where fluids in the accretionary prism are supplied via megasplay faults. Radiotracer experiments showed that relatively small microbial populations in deep mud volcano sediments (10
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