Giant Hydrogen Sulfide Plume in the Oxygen Minimum Zone off Peru Supports Chemolithoautotrophy

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Schunck, Harald ^a,b   Lavik, Gaute ^c   Desai, Dhwani K ^a,d   Großkopf, Tobias ^a,e   Kalvelage, Tim ^c   Löscher, Carolin R ^b   Paulmier, Aurélien ^c,f,g   Contreras, Sergio ^c,h   Siegel, Herbert ⁱ   Holtappels, Moritz ^c   Rosenstiel, Philip ^b   Schilhabel, Markus B ^b   Graco, Michelle ^g   Schmitz, Ruth A ^b   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^c   LaRoche, Julie ^a,d  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f LEGOS   (France)

^g INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBON FIXATION; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPHIC ACTIVITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTINENTAL SHELF; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DETOXIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; EUTROPHICATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYDROGEN SULFIDE REMOVAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PERU; PHOTOAUTOTROPH; PHYLOGENY; PLUME; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SULFATE REDUCER; SULFUR OXIDIZER; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLLOIDS; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84882585184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068661     Document Type: Article

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