Dense Populations of a Giant Sulfur Bacterium in Namibian Shelf Sediments
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A previously unknown giant sulfur bacterium is abundant in sediments underlying the oxygen minimum zone of the Benguela Current upwelling system. The bacterium has a spherical cell that exceeds by up to 100-fold the biovolume of the largest known prokaryotes. On the basis of 16 S ribosomal DNA sequence data, these bacteria are closely related to the marine filamentous sulfur bacteria Thioploca , abundant in the upwelling area off Chile and Peru. Similar to Thioploca , the giant bacteria oxidize sulfide with nitrate that is accumulated to ≤800 millimolar in a central vacuole.
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Modern phosphorite formation has been associated with two species of sulfide-oxidizing bacteria that inhabit microbial mats within marine sediment: Beggiatoa and Thiomargarita namibiensis.
“Modern phosphorite formation has also been associated with two species of sulfide-oxidizing bacteria that inhabit microbial mats within the marine sediment: Beggiatoa [85, 86] and Thiomargarita namibiensis [79, 87].”
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- Authors
- Schulz, H. N., Brinkhoff, T., Ferdelman, T. G., Mariné, M. H., Teske, A., & Jørgensen, B. B.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
- Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (DE)
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (DE)
- Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (US)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1999-04-16
- Volume
- 284
- Issue
- 5413
- Pages
- 493-495
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2082413085
- Cited by
- 481
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 17.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Keywords
- Thioploca, oxygen minimum zone, sulfide oxidation, nitrate accumulation, central vacuole, 16S rRNA phylogeny, marine sediment
- MeSH terms
- Bacteria, Cytoplasm, Microscopy, Electron, Molecular Sequence Data, Namibia, Nitrates, Terminology as Topic, Oxidation-Reduction, Phylogeny, RNA, Bacterial, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Sulfides, Sulfur, Vacuoles, Geologic Sediments, Genes, rRNA
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