ArticlemBio2023
The Early Microbial Colonizers of a Short-Lived Volcanic Island in the Kingdom of Tonga.
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- Three eruptions at the Fagradalsfjall Volcano in Iceland show rapid and predictable microbial community establishment.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Carbon monoxide-oxidising Pseudomonadota on volcanic deposits.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Metabolism of CO and H2 by pioneer bacteria in volcanic soils and the phyllosphere.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Microbes are life, the biological core ofmicroLife · 2025Article
- A genus in the bacterial phylum Aquificota appears to be endemic to Aotearoa-New Zealand.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Taxonomic and genomic attributes of oligotrophic soil bacteria.ISME communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
The island of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in the Kingdom of Tonga was formed by Surtseyan eruptions and persisted for 7 years before being obliterated by a massive volcanic eruption on 15 January 2022. Before it was destroyed, HTHH was an unparalleled natural laboratory to study primary succession on a newly formed landmass. We characterized the microbial communities found on the surface sediments of HTHH using a combination of quantitative PCR, marker gene sequencing, and shotgun metagenomic analyses. Contrary to expectations, photosynthetic cyanobacteria were not detected in these sediments, even though they are typically dominant in the earliest stages of primary succession in other terrestrial environments. Instead, our results suggest that the early sediment communities were composed of a diverse array of bacterial taxa, including trace gas oxidizers, anoxygenic photosynthesizers, and chemolithotrophs capable of metabolizing inorganic sulfur, with these bacteria likely sourced from nearby active geothermal environments. While the destruction of HTHH makes it impossible to revisit the site to conduct
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