Microbial life under extreme energy limitation

The Deep, Dark Energy Biosphere: Intraterrestrial Life on Earth

(2012) Katrina J. Edwards et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Impact Disruption and Recovery of the Deep Subsurface Biosphere

(2012) Charles S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Culturing captures members of the soil rare biosphere

(2012) Ashley Shade et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Archaea of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group are abundant, diverse and widespread in marine sediments

(2012) Kyoko Kubo et al.   ISME Journal

Endospore abundance, microbial growth and necromass turnover in deep sub-seafloor sediment

(2012) Bente Aa. Lomstein et al.   NATURE

Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

(2012) J. Kallmeyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Promiscuous archaeal ATP synthase concurrently coupled to Na+ and H+ translocation

(2012) K. Schlegel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aerobic Microbial Respiration in 86-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Red Clay

(2012) H. Roy et al.   SCIENCE

Quantification of microbial communities in subsurface marine sediments of the Black Sea and off Namibia

(2012) Axel Schippers   Frontiers in Microbiology

Acetogenesis in the Energy-Starved Deep Biosphere – A Paradox?

(2012) Mark Alexander Lever   Frontiers in Microbiology

Viral abundance and activity in the deep sub-seafloor biosphere

(2011) M Middelboe et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Temporal Dynamics of Bacterial Aging and Rejuvenation

(2011) Camilla U. Rang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sulfate reduction below the sulfate–methane transition in Black Sea sediments

(2011) Lars Holmkvist et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

A cryptic sulfur cycle driven by iron in the methane zone of marine sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark)

(2011) Lars Holmkvist et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Cultivation of methanogenic community from subseafloor sediments using a continuous-flow bioreactor

(2011) Hiroyuki Imachi et al.   ISME Journal

Microfluidic chemostat and turbidostat with flow rate, oxygen, and temperature control for dynamic continuous culture

(2011) Kevin S. Lee et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

New cell extraction procedure applied to deep subsurface sediments

(2011) Jens Kallmeyer et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Carbon and nitrogen assimilation in deep subseafloor microbial cells

(2011) Y. Morono et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth, metabolic partitioning, and the size of microorganisms

(2011) C. P. Kempes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Induction of prophages from deep-subseafloor bacteria

(2011) Tim Engelhardt et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Marine subsurface eukaryotes: the fungal majority

(2010) Virginia P. Edgcomb et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fossilization and degradation of intact polar lipids in deep subsurface sediments: A theoretical approach

(2010) Stefan Schouten et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Quantification of Microbial Communities in Forearc Sediment Basins off Sumatra

(2010) Axel Schippers et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea

(2010) Yoshinori Takano et al.   Nature Geoscience

Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life

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

HowGeobacteraceaemay dominate subsurface biodegradation: physiology ofGeobacter metallireducensin slow-growth habitat-simulating retentostats

(2009) Bin Lin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sulfate-reducing bacteria in marine sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark): abundance and diversity related to geochemical zonation

(2009) Julie Leloup et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of organic matter degradation in Cretaceous black shales inferred from authigenic barite: A reaction-transport model

(2009) Sandra Arndt et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sulfate-reducing ammonium oxidation: A thermodynamically feasible metabolic pathway in subseafloor sediment

(2009) Heather N. Schrum et al.   GEOLOGY

Prokaryotic Populations and Activities in an Interbedded Coal Deposit, Including a Previously Deeply Buried Section (1.6–2.3 km) Above ∼ 150 Ma Basement Rock

(2009) John C. Fry et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Discriminative detection and enumeration of microbial life in marine subsurface sediments

(2009) Yuki Morono et al.   ISME Journal

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

Motility of bacteria in sediments

(2008) T Fenchel   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Quantification of co-occurring reaction rates in deep subseafloor sediments

(2008) Guizhi Wang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   NATURE

Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

(2008) Julius S. Lipp et al.   NATURE

Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life's major domains: Evidence for life's metabolic optimum

(2008) A. M. Makarieva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA