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Yellowstone National Park Mammoth Hot Spring-EDTA

ABSTRACT: The thermophilic Aquificales inhabit and play important biogeochemical roles in the geothermal environments globally. Although intensive studies on physiology, microbial ecology, biochemistry, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of the Aquificales¬ species and Aquificales-containing environmental samples have been conducted, comprehensive understandings about their ecophysiology, especially in the natural niches have been limited. In the present study, an integrated suite of metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and metaproteomic analyses, for the first time, were conducted on a filamentous microbial community from the Apron and Channel Facies (ACF) of CaCO3 (travertine) deposition at Narrow Gauge, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ

ORGANISM(S): Sulfurihydrogenibium

SUBMITTER: Yiran Dong

LAB HEAD: Yiran Dong

PROVIDER: PXD006504 | Pride | 2020-05-26

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Physiology, Metabolism, and Fossilization of Hot-Spring Filamentous Microbial Mats.

Dong Yiran Y Sanford Robert A RA Inskeep William P WP Srivastava Vaibhav V Bulone Vincent V Fields Christopher J CJ Yau Peter M PM Sivaguru Mayandi M Ahrén Dag D Fouke Kyle W KW Weber Joseph J Werth Charles R CR Cann Isaac K IK Keating Kathleen M KM Khetani Radhika S RS Hernandez Alvaro G AG Wright Chris C Band Mark M Imai Brian S BS Fried Glenn A GA Fouke Bruce W BW

Astrobiology 20190430 12

The evolutionarily ancient Aquificales bacterium <i>Sulfurihydrogenibium</i> spp. dominates filamentous microbial mat communities in shallow, fast-flowing, and dysoxic hot-spring drainage systems around the world. In the present study, field observations of these fettuccini-like microbial mats at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park are integrated with geology, geochemistry, hydrology, microscopy, and multi-omic molecular biology analyses. Strategic sampling of living filamentous mat ...[more]

PMID: 31038352

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Yellowstone National Park Mammoth Hot Spring-EDTA

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Physiology, Metabolism, and Fossilization of Hot-Spring Filamentous Microbial Mats.

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