Thermophilic subseafloor microorganisms from the 1996 north Gorda Ridge eruption

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作者
Summit, M [1 ]
Baross, JA [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Oceanog, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0967-0645(98)00092-7
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P7 [海洋学];
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0707 ;
摘要
High-temperature microbes were present in two hydrothermal event plumes (EP96A and B) resulting from the February-March 1996 eruptions along the North Gorda Ridge. Anaerobic thermophiles were cultured from 17 of 22 plume samples at levels exceeding 200 organisms per liter; no thermophiles were cultured from any of 12 samples of background seawater. As these microorganisms grow at temperatures of 50-90 degrees C, they could not have grown in the event plume and instead most probably derived from a subseafloor environment tapped by the event plume source fluids. Event plumes are thought to derive from a pre-existing subseaffoor fluid reservoir, which implies that these thermophiles are members of a native subseaffoor community that was present before the eruptive event. Thermophiles also were cultured from continuous chronic-style hydrothermal plumes in April 1996; these plumes may have formed from cooling lava piles. To better understand the nutritional, chemical, and physical constraints of preeruptive crustal environments, seven coccoidal isolates from the two event plumes were partially characterized. Results from nutritional and phylogenetic studies indicate that these thermophiles are heterotrophic archaea that represent new species, and probably a new genus, within the Thermococcales. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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