Metatranscriptomes Reveal That All Three Domains of Life Are Active but Are Dominated by Bacteria in the Fennoscandian Crystalline Granitic Continental Deep Biosphere

Autor: Margarita Lopez-Fernandez, Domenico Simone, Xiaofen Wu, Lucile Soler, Emelie Nilsson, Karin Holmfeldt, Henrik Lantz, Stefan Bertilsson, Mark Dopson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: mBio, Vol 9, Iss 6 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2150-7511
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01792-18
Popis: ABSTRACT The continental subsurface is suggested to contain a significant part of the earth’s total biomass. However, due to the difficulty of sampling, the deep subsurface is still one of the least understood ecosystems. Therefore, microorganisms inhabiting this environment might profoundly influence the global nutrient and energy cycles. In this study, in situ fixed RNA transcripts from two deep continental groundwaters from the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (a Baltic Sea-influenced water with a residence time of
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