Iron-based microbial ecosystem on and below the seafloor: A case study of hydrothermal fields of the Southern Mariana Trough

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Kato, Shingo ^a,b   Nakamura, Kentaro ^c   Toki, Tomohiro ^d   Ishibashi, Jun Ichiro ^e   Tsunogai, Urumu ^f   Hirota, Akinori ^g   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^b  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemolithoautotrophs; Deep sea hydrothermal vent field; Iron oxidizing bacteria; Shallow sub seafloor microbial ecosystem; Thermodynamic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875675161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00089     Document Type: Article

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