Decoding microbial diversity, biogeochemical functions, and interaction potentials in red sea hydrothermal vents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hydrothermal vents along mid-ocean ridges host diverse microbial communities and are crucial to global elemental cycling. The Red Sea, known for its unique environmental conditions-including low nutrient levels, high year-round temperatures, bottom-water temperatures of 21 °C, and elevated salinity-hosts recently discovered active low-temperature hydrothermal vent fields at the axial Hatiba Mons volcano. These vents, characterized by large iron oxide mounds and abundant microbial mats, offer an extreme environment for studying the diversity and functions of prokaryotes involved in elemental cycling in this system. In this study, we used 16S rRNA sequencing and shotgun metagenomics to examine the microbial diversity and metabolic capabilities of precipitates and microbial

SUBMITTER: Altalhi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12482716 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature