Article
Microbial community assembly and evolution in subseafloor sediment.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Mar 2017
Starnawski Piotr, Bataillon Thomas, Ettema Thijs J G, Jochum Lara M, Schreiber Lars, Chen Xihan, Lever Mark A, Polz Martin F, Jørgensen Bo B, Schramm Andreas, Kjeldsen Kasper U
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial and archaeal communities inhabiting the subsurface seabed live under strong energy limitation and have growth rates that are orders of magnitude slower than laboratory-grown cultures. It is not understood how subsurface microbial communities are assembled and whether populations undergo adaptive evolution or accumulate mutations as a result of impaired DNA repair under such energy-limited conditions....
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