Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of hypersaline sediments in Orca Basin

Life on the edge: active microbial communities in the Kryos MgCl2-brine basin at very low water activity

(2018) Lea Steinle et al.   ISME Journal

Patterns and variability in geochemical signatures and microbial activity within and between diverse cold seep habitats along the lower continental slope, Northern Gulf of Mexico

(2016) Marshall Bowles et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Strangers in the archaeal world: osmostress-responsive biosynthesis of ectoine and hydroxyectoine by the marine thaumarchaeonNitrosopumilus maritimus

(2016) Nils Widderich et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity and activity in seafloor brine lake sediments (Alaminos Canyon block 601, Gulf of Mexico)

(2016) M. Crespo-Medina et al.   Geobiology

Multiple evidence for methylotrophic methanogenesis as the dominant methanogenic pathway in hypersaline sediments from the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

(2016) Guang-Chao Zhuang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Gene expression profiling of microbial activities and interactions in sediments under haloclines of E. Mediterranean deep hypersaline anoxic basins

(2016) Virginia P Edgcomb et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogeography, Salinity Adaptations and Metabolic Potential of the Candidate Division KB1 Bacteria Based on a Partial Single Cell Genome

(2016) Lisa M. Nigro et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metabolic traits of an uncultured archaeal lineage -MSBL1- from brine pools of the Red Sea

(2016) Romano Mwirichia et al.   Scientific Reports

Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

(2015) Alma E. Parada et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inter-comparison of the potentially active prokaryotic communities in the halocline sediments of Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline basins

(2015) Konstantinos A. Kormas et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Phylogeny and physiology of candidate phylum ‘Atribacteria’ (OP9/JS1) inferred from cultivation-independent genomics

(2015) Masaru K Nobu et al.   ISME Journal

Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for scavenging of diverse organic compounds by widespread deep-sea archaea

(2015) Meng Li et al.   Nature Communications

Zonation of Microbial Communities by a Hydrothermal Mound in the Atlantis II Deep (the Red Sea)

(2015) Yong Wang et al.   PLoS One

Unveiling microbial activities along the halocline of Thetis, a deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin

(2014) Maria G Pachiadaki et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative genomics reveals adaptations of a halotolerant thaumarchaeon in the interfaces of brine pools in the Red Sea

(2014) David Kamanda Ngugi et al.   ISME Journal

Global Patterns of Abundance, Diversity and Community Structure of the Aminicenantes (Candidate Phylum OP8)

(2014) Ibrahim F. Farag et al.   PLoS One

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Microbial life in the Lake Medee, the largest deep-sea salt-saturated formation

(2013) Michail M. Yakimov et al.   Scientific Reports

The Genome of Nitrospina gracilis Illuminates the Metabolism and Evolution of the Major Marine Nitrite Oxidizer

(2013) Sebastian Lücker et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Vertical, horizontal, and temporal changes in temperature in the Atlantis II and Discovery hot brine pools, Red Sea

(2012) Stephen A. Swift et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Distribution andin situabundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria in diverse marine hydrocarbon seep sediments

(2012) Sara Kleindienst et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat

(2012) J Kirk Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Unique Prokaryotic Consortia in Geochemically Distinct Sediments from Red Sea Atlantis II and Discovery Deep Brine Pools

(2012) Rania Siam et al.   PLoS One

The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

(2011) Michael Pester et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Unveiling microbial life in new deep-sea hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings

(2011) Violetta La Cono et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Towards constraining H2 concentration in subseafloor sediment: A proposal for combined analysis by two distinct approaches

(2011) Yu-Shih Lin et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Cultivation of the first mesophilic representative (“mesotoga”) within the order Thermotogales

(2011) Wagdi Ben Hania et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiology of the Red Sea (and other) deep-sea anoxic brine lakes

(2011) André Antunes et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Biogeochemical signatures and microbial activity of different cold-seep habitats along the Gulf of Mexico deep slope

(2010) Samantha B. Joye et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The biogeochemistry of sorbed methane in marine sediments

(2010) Tobias F. Ertefai et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Sediment-associated microdiversity within the Marine Group I Crenarchaeota

(2010) Alan M. Durbin et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process

(2009) Katrin Knittel et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Desulfosalsimonas propionicica gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic, sulfate-reducing member of the family Desulfobacteraceae isolated from a salt-lake sediment

(2009) K. U. Kjeldsen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data

(2009) Micah Hamady et al.   ISME Journal

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Metabolic variability in seafloor brines revealed by carbon and sulphur dynamics

(2009) Samantha B. Joye et al.   Nature Geoscience

Sulfur cycling and methanogenesis primarily drive microbial colonization of the highly sulfidic Urania deep hypersaline basin

(2009) S. Borin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Does a strong pycnocline impact organic-matter preservation and accumulation in an anoxic setting? The case of the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

(2008) Nicolas Tribovillard et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Paleodepositional conditions in the Orca Basin as inferred from organic matter and trace metal contents

(2008) Nicolas Tribovillard et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY