Microbial perspective on the giant carbonate ridge Alpha Crucis (Southwestern Atlantic upper slope)

• Published in: FEMS microbiology ecology Vol. 97; no. 8; p. 1
• Main Authors: Bendia, Amanda Gonçalves, Signori, Camila Negrão, Nakamura, Fernanda Mancini, Butarelli, Ana Carolina de Araújo, Passos, Júlia Gasparini, Ramos, Raissa Basti, Soares, Luiza Ferreira, de Mahiques, Michel Michaelovitch, Sumida, Paulo Yukio Gomes, Pellizari, Vivian Helena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Carbonates; Environmental aspects; Marine bacteria; Microbial colonies; Ocean bottom; Brazil; chemosynthesis; southwestern atlantic ocean; marine microbiome; deep-sea carbonate mound; microbial community structure

ABSTRACT Deep-sea carbonate mounds can harbor a wide variety of heterotrophic and chemosynthetic microbial communities, providing biodiversity hotspots among the deep-sea benthic ecosystems. This study examined the bacterial and archaeal diversity and community structure in the water column and sedi...