{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Baker IR"],"funding":["NASA","National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation","Division of Ocean Sciences"],"pagination":["e13263"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11070330"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Deep-sea methane seeps are amongst the most biologically productive environments on Earth and are often characterised by stable, low oxygen concentrations and microbial communities that couple the anaerobic oxidation of methane to sulfate reduction or iron reduction in the underlying sediment. At these sites, ferrous iron (Fe<sup>2+</sup>) can be produced by organoclastic iron reduction, methanotrophic-coupled iron reduction, or through the abiotic reduction by sulfide produced by the abundant sulfate-reducing bacteria at these sites. The prevalence of Fe<sup>2+</sup>in the anoxic sediments, as well as the availability of oxygen in the overlying water, suggests that seeps could also harbour communities of iron-oxidising microbes. However, it is unclear to what extent Fe<sup>2+</sup> remain"],"journal":["Environmental microbiology reports"],"pubmed_title":["Sulfur cycling likely obscures dynamic biologically-driven iron redox cycling in contemporary methane seep environments."],"pmcid":["PMC11070330"],"funding_grant_id":["OCE‐1635365","9208","80NSSC19K1427","80NSSC18K1140"],"pubmed_authors":["Girguis PR","Baker IR"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Sulfur cycling likely obscures dynamic biologically-driven iron redox cycling in contemporary methane seep environments.","description":"Deep-sea methane seeps are amongst the most biologically productive environments on Earth and are often characterised by stable, low oxygen concentrations and microbial communities that couple the anaerobic oxidation of methane to sulfate reduction or iron reduction in the underlying sediment. At these sites, ferrous iron (Fe<sup>2+</sup>) can be produced by organoclastic iron reduction, methanotrophic-coupled iron reduction, or through the abiotic reduction by sulfide produced by the abundant sulfate-reducing bacteria at these sites. The prevalence of Fe<sup>2+</sup>in the anoxic sediments, as well as the availability of oxygen in the overlying water, suggests that seeps could also harbour communities of iron-oxidising microbes. However, it is unclear to what extent Fe<sup>2+</sup> remain","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jun","modification":"2026-03-17T16:10:09.064Z","creation":"2025-08-18T09:52:57.453Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11070330","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38705733"],"doi":["10.1111/1758-2229.13263"]}}