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

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 t...

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Published in:mBio 2018-11, Vol.9 (6)
Main Authors: Lopez-Fernandez, Margarita, Simone, Domenico, Wu, Xiaofen, Soler, Lucile, Nilsson, Emelie, Holmfeldt, Karin, Lantz, Henrik, Bertilsson, Stefan, Dopson, Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied and Environmental Science
Archaea - genetics
Bacteria - genetics
Biodiversity
deep biosphere
Extreme Environments
Gene Expression Profiling
Genes, rRNA
Groundwater - microbiology
groundwaters
metatranscriptomes
Microbiology
Microbiota - genetics
Mikrobiologi
mRNA
Phylogeny
RNA, Messenger - genetics
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics
rRNA
Seawater - microbiology
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Silicon Dioxide
Transcriptome
Water Microbiology
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Summary: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, fixed RNA transcripts from two deep continental groundwaters from the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (a Baltic Sea-influenced water with a residence time of
ISSN:2161-2129
2150-7511
2150-7511
DOI:10.1128/mbio.01792-18