A New Frontier for Palaeobiology: Earth's Vast Deep Biosphere

Sulphur and carbon isotopes as tracers of past sub-seafloor microbial activity

(2019) Patrick Meister et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms

(2019) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Manganese Oxides Resembling Microbial Fabrics and Their Implications for Recognizing Inorganically Preserved Microfossils

(2018) A.D. Muscente et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fossilized Life in Subseafloor Ultramafic Rocks

(2018) M. Ivarsson et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

The deep history of Earth's biomass

(2018) Sean McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Microbial structures and possible bacterial sulfide fossils in the giant Jinding Zn-Pb deposit, Yunnan, SW-China: Insights into the genesis of Zn-Pb sulfide mineralization

(2018) Yaxiaer Yalikun et al.   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrate-Dependent Iron Oxidation: A Potential Mars Metabolism

(2018) Alex Price et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars

(2018) S. McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Nature Geoscience

Metatranscriptomes Reveal That All Three Domains of Life Are Active but Are Dominated by Bacteria in the Fennoscandian Crystalline Granitic Continental Deep Biosphere

(2018) Margarita Lopez-Fernandez et al.   mBio

Reduction spheroids preserve a uranium isotope record of the ancient deep continental biosphere

(2018) Sean McMahon et al.   Nature Communications

Biogenic non-crystalline U(IV) revealed as major component in uranium ore deposits

(2017) Amrita Bhattacharyya et al.   Nature Communications

Anaerobic consortia of fungi and sulfate reducing bacteria in deep granite fractures

(2017) Henrik Drake et al.   Nature Communications

Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frutexites-like structures formed by iron oxidizing biofilms in the continental subsurface (Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden)

(2017) Christine Heim et al.   PLoS One

The igneous oceanic crust – Earth's largest fungal habitat?

(2016) M. Ivarsson et al.   Fungal Ecology

Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

(2016) Karthik Anantharaman et al.   Nature Communications

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

Biogenic Iron-Rich Filaments in the Quartz Veins in the Uppermost Ediacaran Qigebulake Formation, Aksu Area, Northwestern Tarim Basin, China: Implications for Iron Oxidizers in Subseafloor Hydrothermal Systems

(2015) Xiqiang Zhou et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A Hierarchical System for Evaluating the Biogenicity of Metavolcanic- and Ultramafic-Hosted Microalteration Textures in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

(2015) Nicola McLoughlin et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Abiotic and candidate biotic micro-alteration textures in subseafloor basaltic glass: A high-resolution in-situ textural and geochemical investigation

(2015) Leif-Erik Rydland Pedersen et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Cellular maintenance processes that potentially underpin the survival of subseafloor fungi over geological timescales

(2015) William D. Orsi et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Autoendoliths: a distinct type of rock-hosted microbial life

(2015) J. Marlow et al.   Geobiology

A metagenomic window into carbon metabolism at 3 km depth in Precambrian continental crust

(2015) Cara Magnabosco et al.   ISME Journal

A Fungal-Prokaryotic Consortium at the Basalt-Zeolite Interface in Subseafloor Igneous Crust

(2015) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   PLoS One

Fluid mixing and the deep biosphere of a fossil Lost City-type hydrothermal system at the Iberia Margin

(2015) Frieder Klein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5–1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries

(2015) Martin D. Brasier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

For the deep biosphere, the present is not always the key to the past: what we can learn from the geological record

(2015) Patrick Meister   TERRA NOVA

Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa

(2015) G. Borgonie et al.   Nature Communications

Revealing the unexplored fungal communities in deep groundwater of crystalline bedrock fracture zones in Olkiluoto, Finland

(2015) Elina Sohlberg et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biogenic Mn-Oxides in Subseafloor Basalts

(2015) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   PLoS One

Deep-biosphere consortium of fungi and prokaryotes in Eocene subseafloor basalts

(2014) S. Bengtson et al.   Geobiology

Geochemistry and nano-structure of a putative ∼3240 million-year-old black smoker biota, Sulphur Springs Group, Western Australia

(2014) David Wacey et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Reassessing the biogenicity of Earth's oldest trace fossil with implications for biosignatures in the search for early life

(2014) E. G. Grosch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Weighing the deep continental biosphere

(2013) Sean McMahon et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Fungal colonies in open fractures of subseafloor basalt

(2013) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   GEO-MARINE LETTERS

Filamentous microbial fossil from low-grade metamorphosed basalt in northern Chichibu belt, central Shikoku, Japan

(2013) M. Sakakibara et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Deep Sequencing of Subseafloor Eukaryotic rRNA Reveals Active Fungi across Marine Subsurface Provinces

(2013) William Orsi et al.   PLoS One

Long term geological record of a global deep subsurface microbial habitat in sand injection complexes

(2013) John Parnell et al.   Scientific Reports

Fungal colonization of an Ordovician impact-induced hydrothermal system

(2013) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   Scientific Reports

Fossilized fungi in subseafloor Eocene basalts

(2012) M. Ivarsson et al.   GEOLOGY

The world's deepest subterranean community - Krubera-Voronja Cave (Western Caucasus)

(2012) Alberto Sendra et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

Preservation and Evolution of Organic Matter During Experimental Fossilisation of the Hyperthermophilic Archaea Methanocaldococcus jannaschii

(2012) François Orange et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

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

The Deep Subsurface Biosphere in Igneous Ocean Crust: Frontier Habitats for Microbiological Exploration

(2012) Katrina J. Edwards et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Putative Fossilized Fungi from the Lithified Volcaniclastic Apron of Gran Canaria, Spain

(2011) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Chromite oxidation by manganese oxides in subseafloor basalts and the presence of putative fossilized microorganisms

(2011) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

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

(2011) B. N. Orcutt et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa

(2011) G. Borgonie et al.   NATURE

Extremophiles: from abyssal to terrestrial ecosystems and possibly beyond

(2011) Francesco Canganella et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

MANGANESE STAINING OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL GLASS: THE CHARACTERIZATION OF Mn-RICH INCLUSIONS IN LEACHED LAYERS AND A HYPOTHESIS OF ITS FORMATION

(2010) O. SCHALM et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Mechanisms of microtunneling in rock substrates: distinguishing endolithic biosignatures from abiotic microtunnels

(2010) N. MCLOUGHLIN et al.   Geobiology

Tapping the Subsurface Ocean Crust Biosphere: Low Biomass and Drilling-Related Contamination Calls for Improved Quality Controls

(2010) Cara M. Santelli et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Geologic setting of serpentine deposits on Mars

(2010) B. L. Ehlmann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Putative fossil life in a hydrothermal system of the Dellen impact structure, Sweden

(2010) Paula Lindgren et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Fungal Diversity in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Ecosystems

(2009) T. Le Calvez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fossilized Microorganisms from the Emperor Seamounts: Implications for the Search for a Subsurface Fossil Record on Earth and Mars

(2009) M. Ivarsson et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Experimental silicification of the extremophilic ArchaeaPyrococcus abyssiandMethanocaldococcus jannaschii: applications in the search for evidence of life in early Earth and extraterrestrial rocks

(2009) F. ORANGE et al.   Geobiology

Biogenic origin for Earth's oldest putative microfossils

(2009) Bradley T. De Gregorio et al.   GEOLOGY

Evidence for cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalts of Variscan orogens, Germany

(2009) B. Eickmann et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Morphogenesis of Self-Assembled Nanocrystalline Materials of Barium Carbonate and Silica

(2009) J. M. Garcia-Ruiz et al.   SCIENCE

Subsurface Filamentous Fabrics: An Evaluation of Origins Based on Morphological and Geochemical Criteria, with Implications for Exopaleontology

(2008) Beda A. Hofmann et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

3.5 billion years of glass bioalteration: Volcanic rocks as a basis for microbial life?

(2008) Hubert Staudigel et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Putative cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalt, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany

(2008) J. PECKMANN et al.   Geobiology

Fossilized microorganisms associated with zeolite–carbonate interfaces in sub-seafloor hydrothermal environments

(2008) M. IVARSSON et al.   Geobiology

Micro-scale variations of iron isotopes in fossilized microorganisms

(2008) Magnus Ivarsson et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Fluid inclusions as a tool to constrain the preservation conditions of sub-seafloor cryptoendoliths

(2008) M. Ivarsson et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE