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Atribacteria Reproducing over Millions of Years in the Atlantic Abyssal Subseafloor.
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- Introducing Candidatus Bathyanammoxibiaceae, a family of bacteria with the anammox potential present in both marine and terrestrial environments.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Microbial Activities and Selection from Surface Ocean to Subseafloor on the Namibian Continental Shelf.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Environmental paleomicrobiology: using DNA preserved in aquatic sediments to its full potential.Environmental microbiology · 2022Review
- Sources and Fluxes of Organic Carbon and Energy to Microorganisms in Global Marine Sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Quantifying the effects of hydrogen on carbon assimilation in a seafloor microbial community associated with ultramafic rocks.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Cryptic metabolisms in anoxic subseafloor sediment.Environmental microbiology reports · 2021Article
- Holocene life and microbiome profiling in ancient tropical Lake Chalco, Mexico.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
How microbial metabolism is translated into cellular reproduction under energy-limited settings below the seafloor over long timescales is poorly understood. Here, we show that microbial abundance increases an order of magnitude over a 5 million-year-long sequence in anoxic subseafloor clay of the abyssal North Atlantic Ocean. This increase in biomass correlated with an increased number of transcribed protein-encoding genes that included those involved in cytokinesis, demonstrating that active microbial reproduction outpaces cell death in these ancient sediments. Metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing all show that the actively reproducing community was dominated by the candidate phylum "
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