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A primordial and reversible TCA cycle in a facultatively chemolithoautotrophic thermophile.

scientific article

Aeropyrum camini sp. nov., a strictly aerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney

scientific article

Bacterial community shift along a subsurface geothermal water stream in a Japanese gold mine

scientific article published on 18 March 2005

Balnearium lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, strictly anaerobic, hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Suiyo Seamount hydrothermal system

scientific article

Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

scientific article (publication date: 21 February 2006)

Cell proliferation at 122 degrees C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

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Characterization of C1-metabolizing prokaryotic communities in methane seep habitats at the Kuroshima Knoll, southern Ryukyu Arc, by analyzing pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, mcrA, and 16S rRNA genes

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Culture-dependent and -independent characterization of microbial communities associated with a shallow submarine hydrothermal system occurring within a coral reef off Taketomi Island, Japan

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Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Deep-sea vent epsilon-proteobacterial genomes provide insights into emergence of pathogens

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Deferribacter desulfuricans sp. nov., a novel sulfur-, nitrate- and arsenate-reducing thermophile isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

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Desulfothermus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic and heterotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field

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Development of 16S rRNA gene-targeted primers for detection of archaeal anaerobic methanotrophs (ANMEs).

scientific article published on 9 May 2009

Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of the subsurface microbial community in a Japanese epithermal gold mine ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2003

Distribution, phylogenetic diversity and physiological characteristics of epsilon-Proteobacteria in a deep-sea hydrothermal field

scientific article published in October 2005

Dual energy metabolism of the Campylobacterota endosymbiont in the chemosynthetic snail Alviniconcha marisindica

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Enzymatic and genetic characterization of carbon and energy metabolisms by deep-sea hydrothermal chemolithoautotrophic isolates of Epsilonproteobacteria

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Exilispira thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic spirochaete isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney.

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Experimental Simulations of Hypervelocity Impact Penetration of Asteroids Into the Terrestrial Ocean and Benthic Cratering

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Extremely high alkaline protease from a deep-subsurface bacterium, Alkaliphilus transvaalensis

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Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated thermophilic crenarchaeotes from a subsurface gold mine as revealed by analysis of genome fragments

scientific article published in December 2005

Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal field.

scientific article published on 9 April 2004

Geoelectrochemical CO production: Implications for the autotrophic origin of life

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Geomicrobiological exploration and characterization of a novel deep-sea hydrothermal system at the TOTO caldera in the Mariana Volcanic Arc.

scientific article published on January 2006

Host-symbiont relationships in hydrothermal vent gastropods of the genus Alviniconcha from the Southwest Pacific

scientific article published on February 2006

Hydrogenimonas thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the epsilon-Proteobacteria, isolated from a black smoker in a Central Indian Ridge hydrothermal field

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Hydrogenivirga okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field, Southern Okinawa Trough.

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In situ electrosynthetic bacterial growth using electricity generated by a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

scientific article published in 2022

Isolation and metabolic characteristics of previously uncultured members of the order aquificales in a subsurface gold mine

scientific article published in June 2002

Isolation and phylogenetic diversity of members of previously uncultivated epsilon-Proteobacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal fields

scientific article published in January 2003

Lebetimonas acidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, acidophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the 'Epsilonproteobacteria', isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal fumarole in the Mariana Arc.

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Marinithermus hydrothermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly aerobic, thermophilic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney

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Marinitoga okinawensis sp. nov., a novel thermophilic and anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field, Southern Okinawa Trough

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Marinobacter alkaliphilus sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from subseafloor alkaline serpentine mud from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1200 at South Chamorro Seamount, Mariana Forearc

scientific article published on 19 August 2004

Metals likely promoted protometabolism in early ocean alkaline hydrothermal systems.

scientific article

Methanothermococcus okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vent system

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Methanotorris formicicus sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Central Indian Ridge

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Microbial communities associated with geological horizons in coastal subseafloor sediments from the sea of okhotsk.

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Microbial community and geochemical analyses of trans-trench sediments for understanding the roles of hadal environments

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system

scientific article published on 07 September 2006

Microbial community in black rust exposed to hot ridge flank crustal fluids

scientific article

Molecular characterization of inorganic sulfur-compound metabolism in the deep-sea epsilonproteobacterium Sulfurovum sp. NBC37-1

scientific article published in 2010

Nitratiruptor tergarcus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nitratifractor salsuginis gen. nov., sp. nov., nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system in the Mid-Okinawa Trough.

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Nitratiruptor tergarcus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nitratifractor salsuginis gen. nov., sp. nov., nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the ε-Proteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system in the Mid-Okinawa Trough

erratum published in September 2005

Novel chemoautotrophic endosymbiosis between a member of the Epsilonproteobacteria and the hydrothermal-vent gastropod Alviniconcha aff. hessleri (Gastropoda: Provannidae) from the Indian Ocean

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Persephonella hydrogeniphila sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney

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Phylogenetic and enzymatic diversity of deep subseafloor aerobic microorganisms in organics- and methane-rich sediments off Shimokita Peninsula.

scientific article published on 27 March 2008

Phylogenetic diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in active deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney structures

scientific article published in March 2004

Quantification of mcrA by quantitative fluorescent PCR in sediments from methane seep of the Nankai Trough.

scientific article published on July 2006

STXM-XANES analyses of carbonaceous matter in seafloor hydrothermal deposits from the ~3.5 Ga Dresser Formation in the North Pole area, Western Australia

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial distribution of marine crenarchaeota group I in the vicinity of deep-sea hydrothermal systems

scientific article published on April 2004

Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum gen. nov., sp. nov., from a subsurface hot aquifer

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Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans

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Sulfurivirga caldicuralii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel microaerobic, thermophilic, thiosulfate-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph, isolated from a shallow marine hydrothermal system occurring in a coral reef, Japan.

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Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the  -Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments

scientific article (publication date: September 2004)

The Scaly-foot Snail genome and implications for the origins of biomineralised armour

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Thiobacter subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a subsurface hot aquifer.

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Thiomicrospira thermophila sp. nov., a novel microaerobic, thermotolerant, sulfur-oxidizing chemolithomixotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal fumarole in the TOTO caldera, Mariana Arc, Western Pacific

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Thioreductor micantisoli gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, sulfur-reducing chemolithoautotroph within the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough.

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Variability in microbial community and venting chemistry in a sediment-hosted backarc hydrothermal system: Impacts of subseafloor phase-separation

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Variability in the microbial communities and hydrothermal fluid chemistry at the newly discovered Mariner hydrothermal field, southern Lau Basin

scholarly article

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