Microbial Ecology of the Dark Ocean above, at, and below the Seafloor

Seasonal changes of bacterial and archaeal communities in the dark ocean: Evidence from the Mediterranean Sea

(2011) Christian Winter et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Production of nitrogen gas via anammox and denitrification in intact sediment cores along a continental shelf to slope transect in the North Atlantic

(2011) Mark Trimmer et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in deep-sea sediments off the Washington margin

(2011) Pia Engström et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial oceanography of the dark ocean's pelagic realm

(2011) Javier Arístegui et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Contrasting crustal production and rapid mantle transitions beneath back-arc ridges

(2011) Robert A. Dunn et al.   NATURE

HOW LARGE IS THE SEAMOUNT BIOME?

(2011) Peter Etnoyer et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Genome of a Low-Salinity Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon Determined by Single-Cell and Metagenomic Analysis

(2011) Paul C. Blainey et al.   PLoS One

New constraints on methane fluxes and rates of anaerobic methane oxidation in a Gulf of Mexico brine pool via in situ mass spectrometry

(2010) Scott D. Wankel et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial diversity and biogeochemistry of the Guaymas Basin deep-sea hydrothermal plume

(2010) Gregory J. Dick et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Thermophilic anaerobes in Arctic marine sediments induced to mineralize complex organic matter at high temperature

(2010) Casey Hubert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Subseafloor seawater-basalt-microbe reactions: Continuous sampling of borehole fluids in a ridge flank environment

(2010) C. Geoffrey Wheat et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence

(2010) Mark A. Lever et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Subseafloor Ocean Crust Microbial Observatories: Development of FLOCS (FLow-through Osmo Colonization System) and Evaluation of Borehole Construction Materials

(2010) Beth Orcutt et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Archaeoglobus sulfaticallidus sp. nov., a thermophilic and facultatively lithoautotrophic sulfate-reducer isolated from black rust exposed to hot ridge flank crustal fluids

(2010) B. O. Steinsbu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust

(2010) Beth N Orcutt et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimneys with contrasting chemistries

(2010) Wei Xie et al.   ISME Journal

Burrowing deeper into benthic nitrogen cycling: the impact of bioturbation on nitrogen fixation coupled to sulfate reduction

(2010) VJ Bertics et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Electric currents couple spatially separated biogeochemical processes in marine sediment

(2010) Lars Peter Nielsen et al.   NATURE

Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria

(2010) Katharina F. Ettwig et al.   NATURE

First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust

(2010) Olivia U. Mason et al.   PLoS One

Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise

(2010) C. R. German et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaea and bacteria with surprising microdiversity show shifts in dominance over 1,000-year time scales in hydrothermal chimneys

(2010) W. J. Brazelton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revisiting the structures of several antibiotics bound to the bacterial ribosome

(2010) D. Bulkley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Single-Cell Ecophysiology of Microbes as Revealed by Raman Microspectroscopy or Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Imaging

(2009) Michael Wagner   Annual Review of Microbiology

Enrichment and Molecular Detection of Denitrifying Methanotrophic Bacteria of the NC10 Phylum

(2009) K. F. Ettwig et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

CO Dehydrogenase Genes Found in Metagenomic Fosmid Clones from the Deep Mediterranean Sea

(2009) A.-B. Martin-Cuadrado et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Archaeal Diversity and the Prevalence of Crenarchaeota in Salt Marsh Sediments

(2009) K. A. Nelson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Archaeal Diversity and Distribution along Thermal and Geochemical Gradients in Hydrothermal Sediments at the Yonaguni Knoll IV Hydrothermal Field in the Southern Okinawa Trough

(2009) T. Nunoura et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Dehalogenation Activities and Distribution of Reductive Dehalogenase Homologous Genes in Marine Subsurface Sediments

(2009) T. Futagami et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Spatial distribution, diversity and composition of bacterial communities in sub-seafloor fluids at a deep-sea hydrothermal field of the Suiyo Seamount

(2009) Shingo Kato et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Microbial biodiversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils of Tramway Ridge, Mount Erebus, Antarctica

(2009) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Short-term microbial and physico-chemical variability in low-temperature hydrothermal fluids near 5°S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

(2009) Mirjam Perner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Culturable prokaryotic diversity of deep, gas hydrate sediments: first use of a continuous high-pressure, anaerobic, enrichment and isolation system for subseafloor sediments (DeepIsoBUG)

(2009) R. John Parkes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community dynamics in a seasonally anoxic fjord: Saanich Inlet, British Columbia

(2009) Elena Zaikova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community shifts in taxa and diversity in response to localized organic loading in the deep sea

(2009) Shana K. Goffredi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Individual hydrothermal vents at Axial Seamount harbor distinct subseafloor microbial communities

(2009) Andrew D. Opatkiewicz et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Reduction of nitrogen compounds in oceanic basement and its implications for HCN formation and abiotic organic synthesis

(2009) Nils G Holm et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

Global Multi-Resolution Topography synthesis

(2009) William B. F. Ryan et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Enzymatic microbial Mn(II) oxidation and Mn biooxide production in the Guaymas Basin deep-sea hydrothermal plume

(2009) Gregory J. Dick et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Elevated concentrations of formate, acetate and dissolved organic carbon found at the Lost City hydrothermal field

(2009) Susan Q. Lang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Microorganisms Isolated from Deep Sea Low-temperature Influenced Oceanic Crust Basalts and Sediment Samples Collected along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

(2009) Kristina Rathsack et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Variability in Microbial Communities in Black Smoker Chimneys at the NW Caldera Vent Field, Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc

(2009) Ken Takai et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Fungal Diversity Associated with an Active Deep Sea Volcano: Vailulu'u Seamount, Samoa

(2009) Laurie Connell et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Redox Speciation and Distribution within Diverse Iron-dominated Microbial Habitats at Loihi Seamount

(2009) Brian T. Glazer et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Microbial Ecology of Fe (hydr)oxide Mats and Basaltic Rock from Vailulu'u Seamount, American Samoa

(2009) Lisa A. Sudek et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Bacterial Variability within an Iron-Silica-Manganese-rich Hydrothermal Mound Located Off-axis at the Cleft Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge

(2009) Richard E. Davis et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Zeta-ProteobacteriaDominate the Colonization and Formation of Microbial Mats in Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Vents at Loihi Seamount, Hawaii

(2009) Allen C. Rassa et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Bacterial diversity and biogeography in deep-sea surface sediments of the South Atlantic Ocean

(2009) Regina Schauer et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial community structure in the North Pacific ocean

(2009) Mark V Brown et al.   ISME Journal

Global ecological patterns in uncultured Archaea

(2009) Jean-Christophe Auguet et al.   ISME Journal

Importance of Proteins Controlling Initiation of DNA Replication in the Growth of the High-Pressure-Loving Bacterium Photobacterium profundum SS9

(2009) Z. W. El-Hajj et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Biogeochemistry of a deep-sea whale fall: sulfate reduction, sulfide efflux and methanogenesis

(2009) T Treude et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Denitrification as the dominant nitrogen loss process in the Arabian Sea

(2009) B. B. Ward et al.   NATURE

Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria

(2009) Willm Martens-Habbena et al.   NATURE

Preservation of iron(II) by carbon-rich matrices in a hydrothermal plume

(2009) Brandy M. Toner et al.   Nature Geoscience

A seafloor microbial biome hosted within incipient ferromanganese crusts

(2009) A. S. Templeton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Assembling the Marine Metagenome, One Cell at a Time

(2009) Tanja Woyke et al.   PLoS One

Subseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific Gyre

(2009) Steven D'Hondt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecology of the rare microbial biosphere of the Arctic Ocean

(2009) Pierre E. Galand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large-scale patterns in biodiversity of microbial eukaryotes from the abyssal sea floor

(2009) F. Scheckenbach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GeoChip-based analysis of metabolic diversity of microbial communities at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent

(2009) F. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

(2009) P. Lam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Constant Flux of Diverse Thermophilic Bacteria into the Cold Arctic Seabed

(2009) C. Hubert et al.   SCIENCE

Metagenome of a Versatile Chemolithoautotroph from Expanding Oceanic Dead Zones

(2009) D. A. Walsh et al.   SCIENCE

Deep-Sea Archaea Fix and Share Nitrogen in Methane-Consuming Microbial Consortia

(2009) A. E. Dekas et al.   SCIENCE

Manganese- and Iron-Dependent Marine Methane Oxidation

(2009) E. J. Beal et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative Molecular Analysis of Endoevaporitic Microbial Communities

(2008) J. W. Sahl et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Deep-Sea Bacterium Photobacterium profundum SS9 Utilizes Separate Flagellar Systems for Swimming and Swarming under High-Pressure Conditions

(2008) E. A. Eloe et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular Comparison of Bacterial Communities within Iron-Containing Flocculent Mats Associated with Submarine Volcanoes along the Kermadec Arc

(2008) T. W. Hodges et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Changes in Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure and Functional Diversity along a Geochemically Variable Soil Profile

(2008) C. M. Hansel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity and Stratification of Archaea in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat

(2008) C. E. Robertson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sulfur isotope evidence for microbial sulfate reduction in altered oceanic basalts at ODP Site 801

(2008) Olivier Rouxel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Borehole observations of fluid flow from South Chamorro Seamount, an active serpentinite mud volcano in the Mariana forearc

(2008) C WHEAT et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The distribution and stabilisation of dissolved Fe in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes

(2008) Sarah A. Bennett et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

It's all relative: ranking the diversity of aquatic bacterial communities

(2008) Allison K. Shaw et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Denitrifying bacteria anaerobically oxidize methane in the absence ofArchaea

(2008) Katharina F. Ettwig et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analyses of ribosomal DNA-containing bacterioplankton genome fragments from a 4000 m vertical profile in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

(2008) Vinh D. Pham et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity in Cenozoic sediments recovered from the Lomonosov Ridge in the Central Arctic Basin

(2008) Stephanie R. Forschner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Subsurface microbiology and biogeochemistry of a deep, cold-water carbonate mound from the Porcupine Seabight (IODP Expedition 307)

(2008) Gordon Webster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The diversity and abundance of bacteria inhabiting seafloor lavas positively correlate with rock alteration

(2008) Cara M. Santelli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Culture dependent and independent analyses of 16S rRNA and ATP citrate lyase genes: a comparison of microbial communities from different black smoker chimneys on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

(2008) James W. Voordeckers et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Deep-sea vent chemoautotrophs: diversity, biochemistry and ecological significance

(2008) Satoshi Nakagawa et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Enumeration of Archaea and Bacteria in seafloor basalt using real-time quantitative PCR and fluorescence microscopy

(2008) Jørn Einen et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Alteration textures in terrestrial volcanic glass and the associated bacterial community

(2008) C. S. COCKELL et al.   Geobiology

Massive, low-temperature hydrothermal flow from a basaltic outcrop on 23 Ma seafloor of the Cocos Plate: Chemical constraints and implications

(2008) C. Geoffrey Wheat et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in marine sediments from the Skagerrak (Denmark): I. Geochemical and microbiological analyses

(2008) Nina J. Knab et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Microbial ammonia oxidation and enhanced nitrogen cycling in the Endeavour hydrothermal plume

(2008) Phyllis Lam et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Biogenic iron oxyhydroxide formation at mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vents: Juan de Fuca Ridge

(2008) Brandy M. Toner et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Bacterial Colonization and Weathering of Terrestrial Obsidian in Iceland

(2008) Aude Herrera et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Fluids from the Oceanic Crust Support Microbial Activities within the Deep Biosphere

(2008) Bert Engelen et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Microbiological Assessment of Circulation Mud Fluids During the First Operation of Riser Drilling by the Deep-Earth Research VesselChikyu

(2008) Noriaki Masui et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Temporal evolution of methane cycling and phylogenetic diversity of archaea in sediments from a deep-sea whale-fall in Monterey Canyon, California

(2008) Shana K Goffredi et al.   ISME Journal

Prokaryotic diversity, distribution and insights into their role in biogeochemical cycling in marine basalts

(2008) Olivia U Mason et al.   ISME Journal

Lysogenic virus–host interactions predominate at deep-sea diffuse-flow hydrothermal vents

(2008) Shannon J Williamson et al.   ISME Journal

Halomonas profundus sp. nov., a new PHA-producing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp

(2008) C. Simon-Colin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of a microbial community associated with rock varnish at Yungay, Atacama Desert, Chile

(2008) Kimberly R. Kuhlman et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Variability in the microbial communities and hydrothermal fluid chemistry at the newly discovered Mariner hydrothermal field, southern Lau Basin

(2008) Ken Takai et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Petrogenesis of Volcanic Rocks from Saipan and Rota, Mariana Islands, and Implications for the Evolution of Nascent Island Arcs

(2008) Mark K. Reagan et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Oxygen dynamics of marine sediments

(2008) Ronnie N. Glud   Marine Biology Research

Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust

(2008) Cara M. Santelli et al.   NATURE

Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

(2008) Gaute Lavik et al.   NATURE

Major gradients in putatively nitrifying and non-nitrifying Archaea in the deep North Atlantic

(2008) Hélène Agogué et al.   NATURE

Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   NATURE

Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome

(2008) Martin Laurberg et al.   NATURE

Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

(2008) Julius S. Lipp et al.   NATURE

Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

(2008) M. Hutnak et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

(2008) Céline Brochier-Armanet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic signatures of the Peru Margin subseafloor biosphere show a genetically distinct environment

(2008) J. F. Biddle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A single-cell view on the ecophysiology of anaerobic phototrophic bacteria

(2008) N. Musat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell proliferation at 122 C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

(2008) K. Takai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extending the Sub-Sea-Floor Biosphere

(2008) E. G. Roussel et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic diversity of sediment bacteria from the southern Cretan margin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

(2008) Paraskevi N. Polymenakou et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Use of voltammetric solid-state (micro)electrodes for studying biogeochemical processes: Laboratory measurements to real time measurements with an in situ electrochemical analyzer (ISEA)

(2007) George W. Luther et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY