Title: Microbial community development in deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Earth, and the Enceladus
Abstract: Over the past 35 years, researchers have explored seafloor deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments around the globe and studied a number of microbial ecosystems. Bioinformatics and interdisciplinary geochemistry-microbiology approaches have provided new ideas on the diversity and community composition of microbial life living in deep-sea vents. In particular, recent investigations have revealed that the community structure and productivity of chemolithotrophic microbial communities in the deep-sea hydrothermal environments are controlled primarily by variations in the geochemical composition of hydrothermal fluids (Takai and Nakamura, 2010; 2011). This was originally predicted by a thermodynamic calculation of energy yield potential of various chemolithotrophic metabolisms in a simulated hydrothermal mixing zone (McCollom and Shock, 1997). The prediction has been finally justified by the relatively quantitative geomicrobiological characterizations in various deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments all over the world (Takai and Nakamura, 2010; 2011).
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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