Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal field

Extremophiles

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-282

  Takai, Ken ^a   Gamo, Toshitaka ^b   Tsunogai, Urumu ^b   Nakayama, Noriko ^b   Hirayama, Hisako ^a   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a,c   Horikoshi, Koki ^a  

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

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Indian Ridge; Deep sea hydrothermal vent; Hydrogen oxidizing; Hyperthermophilic; Methanogen; Subsurface

Indexed keywords

METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOCOCCALES; THERMOCOCCALES;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYDROGEN; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHANOCOCCALES; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGY; HYDROGEN; METHANOCOCCALES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 9744226636     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-004-0386-3     Document Type: Article

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