The Rock-Hosted Biosphere

Active anaerobic methane oxidation and sulfur disproportionation in the deep terrestrial subsurface

(2022) Emma Bell et al.   ISME Journal

Transformation of low‐molecular‐weight organic acids by microbial endoliths in subsurface mafic and ultramafic igneous rock

(2022) Elizabeth M. Fones et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Energetically Informed Niche Models of Hydrogenotrophs Detected in Sediments of Serpentinized Fluids of the Samail Ophiolite of Oman

(2022) Alta E. G. Howells et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Geological activity shapes the microbiome in deep-subsurface aquifers by advection

(2022) Yuran Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Investigation of microbial metabolisms in an extremely high pH marine-like terrestrial serpentinizing system: Ney Springs

(2022) Leah R. Trutschel et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Genomes of six viruses that infect Asgard archaea from deep-sea sediments

(2022) Ian M. Rambo et al.   Nature Microbiology

Deep-branching acetogens in serpentinized subsurface fluids of Oman

(2022) Daniel R. Colman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

(2022) K. A. Farley et al.   SCIENCE

The Fennoscandian Shield deep terrestrial virosphere suggests slow motion ‘boom and burst’ cycles

(2021) Karin Holmfeldt et al.   Communications Biology

Earth-like Habitable Environments in the Subsurface of Mars

(2021) J.D. Tarnas et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Biological Production of H 2 , CH 4 , and CO 2 in the Deep Subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt

(2021) Jose L. Sanz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple carbon incorporation strategies support microbial survival in cold subseafloor crustal fluids

(2021) Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert et al.   Science Advances

MICROBIAL ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY IN SUBSURFACE LOWER OCEANIC CRUST AT ATLANTIS BANK, SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE

(2021) Shu Ying Wee et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carboxylate anion generation in aqueous solution from carbonate radiolysis, a potential route for abiotic organic acid synthesis on Earth and beyond

(2021) Johan Vandenborre et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Quantifying the effects of hydrogen on carbon assimilation in a seafloor microbial community associated with ultramafic rocks

(2021) Ömer K. Coskun et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial Diversity and Function in Shallow Subsurface Sediment and Oceanic Lithosphere of the Atlantis Massif

(2021) J. Goordial et al.   mBio

Geochemical, biological and clumped isotopologue evidence for substantial microbial methane production under carbon limitation in serpentinites of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

(2021) Daniel B. Nothaft et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Aqueous Geochemical and Microbial Variation Across Discrete Depth Intervals in a Peridotite Aquifer Assessed Using a Packer System in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

(2021) Daniel B. Nothaft et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Accessing the subsurface biosphere within rocks undergoing active low‐temperature serpentinization in the Samail ophiolite (Oman Drilling Project)

(2021) A.S. Templeton et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Microbial Communities in a Serpentinizing Aquifer Are Assembled through Strong Concurrent Dispersal Limitation and Selection

(2021) Lindsay I. Putman et al.   mSystems

Iron-oxidizer hotspots formed by intermittent oxic–anoxic fluid mixing in fractured rocks

(2020) Olivier Bochet et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial Residents of the Atlantis Massif’s Shallow Serpentinite Subsurface

(2020) Shahrzad Motamedi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A dynamic microbial sulfur cycle in a serpentinizing continental ophiolite

(2020) Mary C. Sabuda et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mineral-hosted biofilm communities in the continental deep subsurface, Deep Mine Microbial Observatory, SD, USA

(2020) Caitlin P. Casar et al.   Geobiology

Recycling and metabolic flexibility dictate life in the lower oceanic crust

(2020) Jiangtao Li et al.   NATURE

Carbon Assimilation Strategies in Ultrabasic Groundwater: Clues from the Integrated Study of a Serpentinization-Influenced Aquifer

(2020) Lauren M. Seyler et al.   mSystems

Microbe‐mineral biogeography from multi‐year incubations in oceanic crust at North Pond, Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

(2020) Beth N. Orcutt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Time-series transcriptomics from cold, oxic subseafloor crustal fluids reveals a motile, mixotrophic microbial community

(2020) Lauren M. Seyler et al.   ISME Journal

Diversification of methanogens into hyperalkaline serpentinizing environments through adaptations to minimize oxidant limitation

(2020) Elizabeth M. Fones et al.   ISME Journal

Patterns of in situ Mineral Colonization by Microorganisms in a ~60°C Deep Continental Subsurface Aquifer

(2020) Sean W. Mullin et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A window into the abiotic carbon cycle – Acetate and formate in fracture waters in 2.7 billion year-old host rocks of the Canadian Shield

(2020) B. Sherwood Lollar et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Physiological adaptations to serpentinization in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

(2019) Elizabeth M. Fones et al.   ISME Journal

Carbon fixation and energy metabolisms of a subseafloor olivine biofilm

(2019) Amy R. Smith et al.   ISME Journal

Quantifying population-specific growth in benthic bacterial communities under low oxygen using H218O

(2019) Ömer K. Coskun et al.   ISME Journal

Abiotic methane in continental ultramafic rock systems: Towards a genetic model

(2019) G. Etiope et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

The Cell and the Sum of Its Parts: Patterns of Complexity in Biosignatures as Revealed by Deep UV Raman Spectroscopy

(2019) Haley M. Sapers et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Paleo-Rock-Hosted Life on Earth and the Search on Mars: A Review and Strategy for Exploration

(2019) T.C. Onstott et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

‘Follow the Water’: Hydrogeochemical Constraints on Microbial Investigations 2.4 km Below Surface at the Kidd Creek Deep Fluid and Deep Life Observatory

(2019) Garnet S. Lollar et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Archaeal Communities in Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Underneath the Deccan Traps, India

(2019) Avishek Dutta et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Establishment of the Deep Mine Microbial Observatory (DeMMO), South Dakota, USA, a Geochemically Stable Portal Into the Deep Subsurface

(2019) Magdalena R. Osburn et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Ecology of Subseafloor Crustal Biofilms

(2019) Gustavo A. Ramírez et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The deep continental subsurface: the dark biosphere

(2018) Cristina Escudero et al.   INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY

Identification and Removal of Contaminant Sequences From Ribosomal Gene Databases: Lessons From the Census of Deep Life

(2018) Cody S. Sheik et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Nitrate-Dependent Iron Oxidation: A Potential Mars Metabolism

(2018) Alex Price et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Enhancement of methanogenesis by electric syntrophy with biogenic iron-sulfide minerals

(2018) Souichiro Kato et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

The role of anaerobic fungi in fundamental biogeochemical cycles in the deep biosphere

(2018) Henrik Drake et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Necromass as a Limited Source of Energy for Microorganisms in Marine Sediments

(2018) James A. Bradley et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Magmatism, serpentinization and life: Insights through drilling the Atlantis Massif (IODP Expedition 357)

(2018) Gretchen L. Früh-Green et al.   LITHOS

The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Nature Geoscience

Abiotic synthesis of amino acids in the recesses of the oceanic lithosphere

(2018) Bénédicte Ménez et al.   NATURE

Rock-crushing derived hydrogen directly supports a methanogenic community: significance for the deep biosphere

(2018) Ronald John Parkes et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

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

Abiotic formation of condensed carbonaceous matter in the hydrating oceanic crust

(2018) Marie Catherine Sforna et al.   Nature Communications

Exploration of deep terrestrial subsurface microbiome in Late Cretaceous Deccan traps and underlying Archean basement, India

(2018) Avishek Dutta et al.   Scientific Reports

Energy and carbon metabolisms in a deep terrestrial subsurface fluid microbial community

(2017) Lily Momper et al.   ISME Journal

A dynamic microbial community with high functional redundancy inhabits the cold, oxic subseafloor aquifer

(2017) Benjamin J Tully et al.   ISME Journal

Unusual metabolic diversity of hyperalkaliphilic microbial communities associated with subterranean serpentinization at The Cedars

(2017) Shino Suzuki et al.   ISME Journal

The deep, hot biosphere: Twenty-five years of retrospection

(2017) Daniel R. Colman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methyl-compound use and slow growth characterize microbial life in 2-km-deep subseafloor coal and shale beds

(2017) Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High reactivity of deep biota under anthropogenic CO2 injection into basalt

(2017) Rosalia Trias et al.   Nature Communications

Serpentinization-Influenced Groundwater Harbors Extremely Low Diversity Microbial Communities Adapted to High pH

(2017) Katrina I. Twing et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Geological and Geochemical Controls on Subsurface Microbial Life in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

(2017) Kaitlin R. Rempfert et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Minimum Biological Energy Quantum

(2017) Volker Müller et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Potential for hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophic and diazotrophic populations to initiate biofilm formation in oligotrophic, deep terrestrial subsurface waters

(2017) Xiaofen Wu et al.   Microbiome

Evidence for Seismogenic Hydrogen Gas, a Potential Microbial Energy Source on Earth and Mars

(2016) Sean McMahon et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Variations in microbial carbon sources and cycling in the deep continental subsurface

(2016) Danielle N. Simkus et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Novel microbial assemblages inhabiting crustal fluids within mid-ocean ridge flank subsurface basalt

(2016) Sean P Jungbluth et al.   ISME Journal

Extracellular electron transfer mechanisms between microorganisms and minerals

(2016) Liang Shi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

An oligotrophic deep-subsurface community dependent on syntrophy is dominated by sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrifiers

(2016) Maggie C. Y. Lau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid carbon mineralization for permanent disposal of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions

(2016) J. M. Matter et al.   SCIENCE

Deep microbial life in high-quality granitic groundwater from geochemically and geographically distinct underground boreholes

(2016) Kohei Ino et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Sulfur mass-independent fractionation in subsurface fracture waters indicates a long-standing sulfur cycle in Precambrian rocks

(2016) L. Li et al.   Nature Communications

A distinct and active bacterial community in cold oxygenated fluids circulating beneath the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic ridge

(2016) Julie L. Meyer et al.   Scientific Reports

Some Compositional and Kinetic Controls on the Bioenergetic Landscapes in Oceanic Basement

(2016) Wolfgang Bach   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Inventory of Deeply Buried Oceanic Crust from a Young Ridge Flank

(2016) Steffen L. Jørgensen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Radiolytic Hydrogen Production in the Subseafloor Basaltic Aquifer

(2016) Mary E. Dzaugis et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Nanocalorimetric Characterization of Microbial Activity in Deep Subsurface Oceanic Crustal Fluids

(2016) Alberto Robador et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Recent Advances in the Theory and Molecular Simulation of Biological Electron Transfer Reactions

(2015) Jochen Blumberger   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Microbial metagenomes from three aquifers in the Fennoscandian shield terrestrial deep biosphere reveal metabolic partitioning among populations

(2015) Xiaofen Wu et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2015) Cara Magnabosco et al.   ISME Journal

Rock comminution as a source of hydrogen for subglacial ecosystems

(2015) J. Telling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments

(2015) Steven D’Hondt et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

(2015) Francisco Dini-Andreote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to  2.5 km below the ocean floor

(2015) F. Inagaki et al.   SCIENCE

Diverse uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater

(2015) Birgit Luef et al.   Nature Communications

In situ Detection of Microbial Life in the Deep Biosphere in Igneous Ocean Crust

(2015) Everett C. Salas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Carbon fixation by basalt-hosted microbial communities

(2015) Beth N. Orcutt et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Out of the dark: transitional subsurface-to-surface microbial diversity in a terrestrial serpentinizing seep (Manleluag, Pangasinan, the Philippines)

(2015) Kristin M. Woycheese et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Low-temperature catalytic CO2hydrogenation with geological quantities of ruthenium: a possible abiotic CH4source in chromitite-rich serpentinized rocks

(2014) G. Etiope et al.   GEOFLUIDS

Evidence of Geobacter-associated phage in a uranium-contaminated aquifer

(2014) Dawn E Holmes et al.   ISME Journal

Tracking heavy water (D2O) incorporation for identifying and sorting active microbial cells

(2014) David Berry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insights into environmental controls on microbial communities in a continental serpentinite aquifer using a microcosm-based approach

(2014) Melitza Crespo-Medina et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Communities Associated with Subsurface Geochemical Processes in Continental Serpentinite Springs

(2013) William J. Brazelton et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An improved cell separation technique for marine subsurface sediments: applications for high-throughput analysis using flow cytometry and cell sorting

(2013) Yuki Morono et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Weighing the deep continental biosphere

(2013) Sean McMahon et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Does aspartic acid racemization constrain the depth limit of the subsurface biosphere?

(2013) T. C. Onstott et al.   Geobiology

Geochemistry and geobiology of a present-day serpentinization site in California: The Cedars

(2013) Penny L. Morrill et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Mineralogy Drives Bacterial Biogeography of Hydrothermally Inactive Seafloor Sulfide Deposits

(2013) Brandy M. Toner et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Groundwater activity on Mars and implications for a deep biosphere

(2013) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial life under extreme energy limitation

(2013) Tori M. Hoehler et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity in The Cedars, an ultrabasic, ultrareducing, and low salinity serpentinizing ecosystem

(2013) S. Suzuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and growth of benthic archaeal populations

(2013) S. Xie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

(2013) M. O. Schrenk et al.   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

(2013) M. A. Lever et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial activity in the marine deep biosphere: progress and prospects

(2013) Beth N. Orcutt et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Assessing sub-seafloor microbial activity by combined stable isotope probing with deuterated water and 13C-bicarbonate

(2012) Gunter Wegener et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Bente Aa. Lomstein et al.   NATURE

Life and Death of Deep-Sea Vents: Bacterial Diversity and Ecosystem Succession on Inactive Hydrothermal Sulfides

(2012) J. B. Sylvan et al.   mBio

Characterization of bacterial diversity to a depth of 1500 m in the Outokumpu deep borehole, Fennoscandian Shield

(2011) Merja Itävaara et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Seamounts as Conduits for Massive Fluid, Heat, and Solute Fluxes on Ridge Flanks

(2011) Andrew Fisher et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Label-Free Bacterial Imaging with Deep-UV-Laser-Induced Native Fluorescence

(2010) R. Bhartia et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust

(2010) Beth N Orcutt et al.   ISME Journal

Abundance and Diversity of Biofilms in Natural and Artificial Aquifers of the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden

(2010) Sara Jägevall et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The Systemic Imprint of Growth and Its Uses in Ecological (Meta)Genomics

(2010) Sara Vieira-Silva et al.   PLoS Genetics

Microbial Communities in Subpermafrost Saline Fracture Water at the Lupin Au Mine, Nunavut, Canada

(2009) T. C. Onstott et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Characterization of microbial processes in deep aquifers of the Fennoscandian Shield

(2008) Lotta Hallbeck et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Thermodynamic constraints on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks

(2008) Thomas M. McCollom 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

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

(2008) Olivia U Mason et al.   ISME Journal

Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust

(2008) Cara M. Santelli et al.   NATURE

Environmental Genomics Reveals a Single-Species Ecosystem Deep Within Earth

(2008) D. Chivian et al.   SCIENCE