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Dense Populations of a Giant Sulfur Bacterium in Namibian Shelf Sediments

Published:1999-04-16 Issue:5413 Volume:284 Page:493-495
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Schulz H. N.¹,Brinkhoff T.²,Ferdelman T. G.¹,Mariné M. Hernández³,Teske A.⁴,Jørgensen B. B.¹

Affiliation:

1. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.

2. Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Post Office Box 2503, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany.

3. Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

4. Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.

Abstract

A previously unknown giant sulfur bacterium is abundant in sediments underlying the oxygen minimum zone of the Benguela Current upwelling system. The bacterium has a spherical cell that exceeds by up to 100-fold the biovolume of the largest known prokaryotes. On the basis of 16 S ribosomal DNA sequence data, these bacteria are closely related to the marine filamentous sulfur bacteria Thioploca , abundant in the upwelling area off Chile and Peru. Similar to Thioploca , the giant bacteria oxidize sulfide with nitrate that is accumulated to ≤800 millimolar in a central vacuole.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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