Article
Autochthonous eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal sediment and experimental microcolonizers at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Jan 2003
López-García Purificación, Philippe Hervé, Gail Françoise, Moreira David
Abstract excerpt
The diversity and mode of life of microbial eukaryotes in hydrothermal systems is very poorly known. We carried out a molecular survey based on 18S ribosomal RNA genes of eukaryotes present in different hydrothermal niches at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. These included metal-rich and rare-earth-element-rich hydrothermal sediments of the Rainbow site, fluid-seawater mixing regions, and colonization devices...
Topics
- Animals
- Atlantic Ocean
- Base Sequence
- Eukaryotic Cells
- Genetic Variation
- Geologic Sediments
- Marine Biology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Plankton
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S
- Seawater
- Temperature
- Water Microbiology