Metabolic redundancy and specialisation of novel sulfide-oxidizing Sulfurimonas and Sulfurovum along the brine-seawater interface of the Kebrit Deep.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Members of the Campylobacterota phylum are dominant key players in sulfidic environments, where they make up a stable portion of sulfide-oxidizing bacterial communities. Despite the significance of these bacteria in primary production being well recognised in several ecosystems, their genomic and metabolic traits in sulfidic deep hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) remain largely unexplored. This knowledge gap not only hampers our understanding of their adaptation and functional role in DHABs but also their ecological interactions with other microorganisms in these unique ecosystems.

Results

Metabolic reconstructions from metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of sulfide-oxidizing Campylobacterota were conducted at 10 cm spatial resolution within the halocline of the b

SUBMITTER: Alamoudi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11800652 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature