Microbial Reefs in the Black Sea Fueled by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane

By W. Michaelis, R. Seifert, K. Nauhaus, T. Treude, V. Thiel, M. Blumenberg, K. Knittel, A. Gieseke, K. Peterknecht, T. Pape and 7 more. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. Antje Boetius
2. B. Jørgensen
3. K. Knittel
4. A. Teske
5. M. Elvert
6. L. Levin
7. Michael Russell
8. Jonathan Franks

In Environmental Chemistry

1. Antje Boetius
2. B. Jørgensen
3. E. Suess
4. M. Elvert
5. K. Knittel
6. L. Levin
7. A. Teske
8. William F. Martin

In Oceanography

1. G. Mendoza
2. Jonathan Franks
3. Antje Boetius
4. B. Jørgensen
5. L. Levin
6. R. Amann
7. G. Rouse
8. A. Teske

Citations in the corpus

• Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life (2008, background): “ANME-1 has been identified in numerous environments, including CH 4 seeps in anoxic marine sediments, CH 4 hydrates, carbonate reefs in the Black Sea and mud volcanoe”
• Electron transfer in syntrophic communities of anaerobic bacteria and archaea (2009, background): “ANME are frequently associated with sulphate-reducing deltaproteobacteria related to either Desulfosarcina–Desulfococcus or Desulfobulbus clade”
• Building the Biomarker Tree of Life (2005, background): “The isotopic fractionation of lipid relative to substrate (CO2) was 32‰ to 49‰ (lipids depleted relative to substrate) for the samples from the Black Sea and for samples taken from laboratory enrichment cultures.”
• Diversity and Distribution of Methanotrophic Archaea at Cold Seeps (2005, background): “A second archaeal group (ANME-1), which is distantly related to the Methanosarcinales and Methanomicrobiales, has also been shown to mediate AOM (34, 41).”
• On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. (2003, background): “…by the model to associate an archaebacterium and a eubacterium, but truly striking anaerobic syntrophic associations involving methanogens and hydrogen dependence (albeit by sulphate reducers) are becoming known in the kinds of environments predicted (Boetius et al. 2000; Michaelis et al. 2002).”
• Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps (2015, background): “, [16; 17], and typically have carbon isotopic values that are much more negative (lighter) than surrounding bottom-water values due to the incorporation of δ(13)C-depleted methane-derived carbon [9; 10; 18; 19; 20].”
• ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES (2005, background): “AOM is carried out by two or more groups of archaea — the ANME-1 (Michaelis et al. 2002), ANME-2 (Boetius et al. 2000) and possibly ANME-3.”
• Dynamic Energy Budget Theory for Metabolic Organisation (2005, background): “Prokaryotic mats on intertidal mudflats and at methane seeps illustrate that the exchange of metabolites between species in a community can be intense [790, 838].”
• Characterization of Specific Membrane Fatty Acids as Chemotaxonomic Markers for Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Involved in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane (2003, background): “Recent studies provided evidence that consortia of archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) mediate the process of AOM in various methane seep environments (Boetius et al. 2000; Orphan et al. 2001; Michaelis et al. 2002).”
• Microbial Communities of Deep Marine Subsurface Sediments: Molecular and Cultivation Surveys (2006, background): “…et al. 2001); and sulfatedependent, methanotrophic consortia analogous to those found at methane seeps and vents (Hinrichs et al. 1999; Boetius et al. 2000; Orphan et al. 2001, 2002; Michaelis et al. 2002; Teske et al. 2002, 2003) were expected to dominate the sulfatemethane transition zones.”
• A Microbial Mat of a Large Sulfur Bacterium Preserved in a Miocene Methane-Seep Limestone (2004, background): “At methane-seeps, the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is the primary process by which biomass accumulates ( Boetius et al. 2000 ; Michaelis et al.”
• Microbial methane turnover in different marine habitats (2005, background): “one mole sulfide being produced for each mole of methane consumed (Michaelis et al., 2002; Nauhaus et al., 2002; Treude et al., 2003).”
• How Deep Can Surface Signals Be Traced in the Critical Zone? Merging Biodiversity with Biogeochemistry Research in a Central German Muschelkalk Landscape (2016, background): “Geological processes transporting chemical energy in the form of gases, such as hydrogen (H2), methane (CH4), or reduced metal ions can support rich and diverse microbial communities near hydrothermal vents (Hinrichs et al., 1999; Boetius et al., 2000; Michaelis et al., 2002).”