General Medicine


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Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems

Citation
Jungbluth et al. (2017). PeerJ 5
Names
“Desulfopertinax” “Desulfopertinax cowenii” Desulforudis audaxviator Ts
Abstract
It is generally accepted that diverse, poorly characterized microorganisms reside deep within Earth’s crust. One such lineage of deep subsurface-dwelling bacteria is an uncultivated member of the Firmicutes phylum that can dominate molecular surveys from both marine and continental rock fracture fluids, sometimes forming the sole member of a single-species microbiome. Here, we reconstructed a genome from basalt-hosted fluids of the deep subseafloor along the eastern Juan de Fuca Ridge flank and