Potential for Chemolithoautotrophy Among Ubiquitous Bacteria Lineages in the Dark Ocean

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1203690
• Publication Date: 2011-09-01T21:37:42Z
• Authors: Brandon K. Swan; Manuel Martinez-G...; Christina M. Preston; Alexander Sczyrba; Tanja Woyke; Dominique Lamy; Thomas Reinthaler; Nicole J. Poulton; E. Dashiell P. Ma...; Monica Lluesma Gomez; Michael E. Sieracki; Edward F. DeLong; Gerhard J. Herndl; Ramunas Stepanauskas
• Keywords: Deltaproteobacteria; 106022 Mikrobiologie; Chemoautotrophic Growth; 0303 health sciences; Sulfur Compounds; Oceans and Seas; Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase; Molecular Sequence Data; Carbon Dioxide; Darkness; Carbon Cycle; 03 medical and health sciences; Genes, Bacterial; 13. Climate action; 106022 Microbiology; Metagenome; ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; Seawater; 14. Life underwater; Oxidation-Reduction; Gammaproteobacteria; Genome, Bacterial; Phylogeny; Sulfur

Bacteria isolated from a deep seawater mass seem to fix carbon using energy from the oxidation of inorganic sulfur.