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Spatial structure and activity of sedimentary microbial communities underlying a Beggiatoa spp. mat in a Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep.

Karen G Lloyd, Daniel B Albert, Jennifer F Biddle, Jeffrey P Chanton, Oscar Pizarro, and Andreas Teske

PLoS One 5(1):e8738 (2010) PMID 20090951

Subsurface fluids from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps undergo methane- and sulfur-cycling microbial transformations near the sediment surface. Hydrocarbon seep habitats are naturally patchy, with a mosaic of active seep sediments and non-seep sediments. Microbial community shifts and changing activity patterns on small spatial scales from seep to non-seep sediment remain to be examined in a comprehensive habitat study.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008738
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