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Microbial Populations Are Shaped by Dispersal and Recombination in a Low Biomass Subseafloor Habitat

Published:2022-08-30 Issue:4 Volume:13 Page:
ISSN:2150-7511
Container-title:mBio
language:en
Short-container-title:mBio

Author:

Anderson Rika E.¹^ORCID,Graham Elaina D.²^ORCID,Huber Julie A.³^ORCID,Tully Benjamin J.²⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Biology Department, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA

2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

3. Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

4. Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

5. Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Abstract

The cold, oxic subseafloor is an understudied habitat that is difficult to access, yet important to global biogeochemical cycles and starkly different compared to microbial habitats on the surface of the Earth. Our understanding of microbial evolution and population dynamics is largely molded by studies of microbes living in surface habitats that can host 10 to 1,000 times more microbial biomass than is frequently observed in the subsurface.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.00354-22

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