ArticleScientific reports2020
Discovery of Afifi, the shallowest and southernmost brine pool reported in the Red Sea.
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- Extreme Arabian environments and their microbiomes: new frontiers for astrobiology and biosignature discovery.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2026Review
- Active prokaryotic and eukaryotic viral ecology across spatial scale in a deep-sea brine pool.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Metagenomic profiling of antibiotic resistance genes in Red Sea brine pools.Archives of microbiology · 2023Article
- Microdiversity characterizes prevalent phylogenetic clades in the glacier-fed stream microbiome.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Fine-scale metabolic discontinuity in a stratified prokaryote microbiome of a Red Sea deep halocline.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Novel Enzymes From the Red Sea Brine Pools: Current State and Potential.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Patterns and Drivers of Extracellular Enzyme Activity in New Zealand Glacier-Fed Streams.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The previously uncharted Afifi brine pool was discovered in the eastern shelf of the southern Red Sea. It is the shallowest brine basin yet reported in the Red Sea (depth range: 353.0 to 400.5 m). It presents a highly saline (228 g/L), thalassohaline, cold (23.3 °C), anoxic brine, inhabited by the bacterial classes KB1, Bacteroidia and Clostridia and the archaeal classes Methanobacteria and Deep Sea Euryarcheota Group. Functional assignments deduced from the taxonomy indicate methanogenesis and sulfur respiration to be important metabolic processes in this environment. The Afifi brine was remarkably enriched in dissolved inorganic carbon due to microbial respiration and in dissolved nitrogen, derived from anammox processes and denitrification, according to high δ
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