Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from the SUP05 clade are abundant in anoxic and oxygenated marine waters that appear to lack reduced sources of sulfur for cell growth. This raises questions about how these chemosynthetic bacteria survive across oxygen and sulfur gradients and how their mode of survival im...
The balance between autotrophy and heterotrophy regulates the size of the ocean’s carbon sink. The contribution of a particular bacterial or archaeal lineage to carbon flux is determined by its metabolism, which may vary within lineages and may depend on environmental conditions. Members of the SUP...
