Long-term sustainability of a high-energy, low-diweniff crystal-biome

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5798, 2006, Pages 479-482

  Lin, Li Hung ^a,b   Wang, Pei Ling ^c   Rumble, Douglas ^d   Lippmann Pipke, Johanna ^e   Boice, Erik ^f   Pratt, Lisa M ^f   Lollar, Barbara Sherwood ^g   Brodie, Eoin L ^h   Hazen, Terry C ^h   Andersen, Gary L ^h   DeSantis, Todd Z ^h   Moser, Duane P ⁱ   Kershaw, Dave ^j   Onstott, T C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j Mponeng Mine   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REDUCTION; SALTS;

METABASALT; MICROBIAL BIOMES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN; SULFATE;

ARCHEAN; BIOME; GROUNDWATER; HIGH ENERGY ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN; METABASALT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SULFATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; BIOME; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FIRMICUTES; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GOLD; HYDROGEN; MINING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOUTH AFRICA; SULFATES; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

FIRMICUTES;

EID: 33750332574     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127376     Document Type: Article

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30. This work was supported by grants from NSF Life in Extreme Environments and NASA to T.C.O.; the National Science Council of Taiwan to L.-H.L. and P.-L.W.; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Cosmochemistry, and NSF Earth Science to D.R.; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) to J.L.-P.; the NASA Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Initiative to L.P.; the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Killam Fellowship funds to B.S.L.; and the U.S. Department of Energy to T.C.H. We thank J. Hall, G. Southam, G. Wagner, B. Tipple, T. Gihring, E. Van Heerden, and D. Litthauer of the Witwatersrand Microbiology Project, R. Wilson of SRK-Turgis Technology, and geologists of the Mponeng mine for their assistance in the setup of the field laboratory, field sampling, and the coordination of logistic supply. We also acknowledge D. Chivian for discussion of DNA data and S. Ono for assisting with sulfur isotope analysis. GenBank accession numbers for sequences are from DQ088779 to DQ088817.