Borin, Sara and Brusetti, Lorenzo and Mapelli, Francesca and D'Auria, Giuseppe and Brusa, Tullio and Marzorati, Massimo and Rizzi, Aurora and Yakimov, Michail and Marty, Danielle and De Lange, Gert J and Van der Wielen, Paul and Bolhuis, Henk and McGenity, Terry J and Polymenakou, Paraskevi N and Malinverno, Elisa and Giuliano, Laura and Corselli, Cesare and Daffonchio, Daniele (2009) Sulfur cycling and methanogenesis primarily drive microbial colonization of the highly sulfidic Urania deep hypersaline basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (23). pp. 9151-9156. DOI https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811984106
Borin, Sara and Brusetti, Lorenzo and Mapelli, Francesca and D'Auria, Giuseppe and Brusa, Tullio and Marzorati, Massimo and Rizzi, Aurora and Yakimov, Michail and Marty, Danielle and De Lange, Gert J and Van der Wielen, Paul and Bolhuis, Henk and McGenity, Terry J and Polymenakou, Paraskevi N and Malinverno, Elisa and Giuliano, Laura and Corselli, Cesare and Daffonchio, Daniele (2009) Sulfur cycling and methanogenesis primarily drive microbial colonization of the highly sulfidic Urania deep hypersaline basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (23). pp. 9151-9156. DOI https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811984106
Borin, Sara and Brusetti, Lorenzo and Mapelli, Francesca and D'Auria, Giuseppe and Brusa, Tullio and Marzorati, Massimo and Rizzi, Aurora and Yakimov, Michail and Marty, Danielle and De Lange, Gert J and Van der Wielen, Paul and Bolhuis, Henk and McGenity, Terry J and Polymenakou, Paraskevi N and Malinverno, Elisa and Giuliano, Laura and Corselli, Cesare and Daffonchio, Daniele (2009) Sulfur cycling and methanogenesis primarily drive microbial colonization of the highly sulfidic Urania deep hypersaline basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (23). pp. 9151-9156. DOI https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0811984106
Abstract
<jats:p>Urania basin in the deep Mediterranean Sea houses a lake that is >100 m deep, devoid of oxygen, 6 times more saline than seawater, and has very high levels of methane and particularly sulfide (up to 16 mM), making it among the most sulfidic water bodies on Earth. Along the depth profile there are 2 chemoclines, a steep one with the overlying oxic seawater, and another between anoxic brines of different density, where gradients of salinity, electron donors and acceptors occur. To identify and differentiate the microbes and processes contributing to the turnover of organic matter and sulfide along the water column, these chemoclines were sampled at a high resolution. Bacterial cell numbers increased up to a hundredfold in the chemoclines as a consequence of elevated nutrient availability, with higher numbers in the upper interface where redox gradient was steeper. Bacterial and archaeal communities, analyzed by DNA fingerprinting, 16S rRNA gene libraries, activity measurements, and cultivation, were highly stratified and metabolically more active along the chemoclines compared with seawater or the uniformly hypersaline brines. Detailed analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that in both chemoclines δ- and ε-Proteobacteria, predominantly sulfate reducers and sulfur oxidizers, respectively, were the dominant bacteria. In the deepest layers of the basin MSBL1, putatively responsible for methanogenesis, dominated among archaea. The data suggest that the complex microbial community is adapted to the basin's extreme chemistry, and the elevated biomass is driven largely by sulfur cycling and methanogenesis.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | deep anoxic hypersaline lake; element cycling; geosphere-biosphere interaction; Mediterranean Sea; microbial diversity |
Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2011 12:54 |
Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 06:22 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/862 |