Comparative study of subseafloor microbial community structures in deeply buried coral fossils and sediment matrices from the Challenger Mound in the Porcupine Seabight

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Tatsuhiko eHoshino, Yuki eMorono, Takeshi eTerada, Hiroyuki eImachi, Timothy G Ferdelman, Fumio eInagaki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011
• Subjects: 16S rRNA gene; community structure; coral fossils; deep subseafloor biosphere; tag sequence; Microbiology; QR1-502; Porcupine Seabight; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00231; https://doaj.org/article/b306d2c52ed04cbabfd1b10336de40a0

Subseafloor sedimentary environments harbor remarkably diverse microbial communities. However, it remains unknown if the deeply buried fossils in these sediments play ecological roles in deep microbial habitats, or whether the microbial communities inhabiting such fossils differ from those in the su...