Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

By J. Lipp, Y. Morono, F. Inagaki, K. Hinrichs. Nature, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea (2010, background): “, and comprise a significant fraction of the biomass in marine sediment”
• Mechanisms of Microbial Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean - Future Research Directions (2014, background): “The concentrations of ester-linked phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) and intact polar Archaeal lipids (IPAL) indicate the biomasses of extant bacteria and Archaea, respectively, in complex ecosystems (White et al., 1979; Zhang et al., 2002; Sturt et al., 2004; Lipp et al., 2008; Liu et al., 2011).”
• The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review (2013, methodology): “sediments (Lipp et al., 2008).”
• Impact of natural oil and higher hydrocarbons on microbial diversity, distribution, and activity in Gulf of Mexico cold-seep sediments (2010, background): “…(based on FISH measurements in Orcutt et al., 2008) and diversity were comparatively high, reaching a proportion typical for subsurface sediments (Lipp et al., 2008), but distinct from hydrothermal vent settings characterized by relatively low archaeal diversity and biomass (Huber et al., 2007).”
• Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence (2010, background): “The archaeal proportion of the active community in the subsurface is often high, sometimes exceeding that of Bacteria ( Biddle et al. 2006 ; Lipp et al.”
• Prokaryotic Populations and Activities in an Interbedded Coal Deposit, Including a Previously Deeply Buried Section (1.6–2.3 km) Above ∼ 150 Ma Basement Rock (2009, background): “Bacteria rather than Archaea also seem to be dominant in subsurface marine sediments (Schippers et al. 2005 Inagaki et al. 2006), although this has been contradicted (Biddle et al. 2006; Lipp et al. 2008).”
• Microbial Ecology of the Dark Ocean above, at, and below the Seafloor (2011, background): “, higher cell densities in sediments that are more organic rich [120, 323, 436]).”
• New perspectives in benthic deep-sea microbial ecology (2015, background): “Available investigations indicate that archaeal abundance can equal bacterial abundance or even dominate not only in deep-sea waters beneath 1000 m depth, but also in subsurface sediments (Karner et al., 2001; Biddle et al., 2006; Schippers and Neretin, 2006; Lipp et al., 2008).”
• Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment (2012, methodology): “Correlation between concentration of intact phospholipids (a proxy for microbial biomass) and total organic carbon content in subseafloor sediment shows a clear relationship between subseafloor microbial biomass and buried organic matter (10), indicating that the availability of electron donors, wit”
• Ubiquitous production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers(brGDGTs) in global marine environments: a new source indicator for brGDGTs (2016, background): “As the IPLs are rapidly degraded in the environment, they can be used to trace living or recently living material, while the CLs are generated via degradation of the IPLs after cell death (White et al., 1979; Lipp et al., 2008).”
• The biomass distribution on Earth (2018, methodology): “In 2008, a study (79) estimated that the biomass of prokaryotes in subseafloor sediments is dominated by archaea, based on the fraction of intact polar membrane lipids (IPLs) that is associated with archaea.”