Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2007

Abstract

For decades it has been recognized that neutrophilic Fe-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) are associated with hydrothermal venting of Fe(II)-rich fluids associated with seamounts in the world's oceans. The evidence was based almost entirely on the mineralogical remains of the microbes, which themselves had neither been brought into culture or been assigned to a specific phylogenetic clade. We have used both cultivation and cultivation-independent techniques to study Fe-rich microbial mats associated with hydrothermal venting at Loihi Seamount, a submarine volcano.

Publication Title

Plos One

Volume

2

Issue

8

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Proteobacteria; Microbial mats; Hydrothermal vents; Iron bacteria

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Creative Commons License

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Language

English

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application/pdf

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