The smallest in the deepest: the enigmatic role of viruses in the deep biosphere. [PDF]
National Science Review, 2023 Lanlan Cai, Markus G Weinbauer
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Genomic insights into a versatile deep-sea methanotroph constituting the rare biosphere of a Brazilian carbonate mound complex [PDF]
mSystemsRecent discoveries of aerobic methanotrophs in non-seep carbonate-rich environments in the deep sea suggest that these organisms may persist as part of the rare biosphere.
Ana Carolina de Araújo Butarelli +8 more
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Tracking the Deep Biosphere through Time [PDF]
, 2021 Deep biosphere research is at the scientific frontier of bio- and geo-related sciences, yet it is largely underexplored. In terms of volume, deep subsurface settings represent some of the largest microbial habitats on the planet, and the combined biomass
Drake, Henrik, +2 more
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Nature and extent of the deep biosphere
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2013 As investigators of life underground, we anticipate the chance to learn more about the unseen world of small life deep in Earth, but only if we continue to engage in essential collaborations with all those who possess complementary knowledge of the ...
Colwell, Frederick S. +1 more
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Shrinking majority of the deep biosphere. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012 Living microorganisms were first discovered in sediment cores from scientific ocean drilling in the late 1980s when microbiologists observed and counted DNA-stained microbial cells under the microscope. During the following decade, new observations were made from drill sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea (1, 2).
Jørgensen BB.
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Cold seep formation from salt diapir–controlled deep biosphere oases [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaShuhei Ono, Casey Hubert, Mitchell Kerr
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Advances in Defining Ecosystem Functions of the Terrestrial Subsurface Biosphere
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The subsurface is one of the last remaining ‘uncharted territories’ of Earth and is now accepted as a biosphere in its own right, at least as critical to Earth systems as the surface biosphere.
D’Arcy R. Meyer-Dombard, Judy Malas
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Prospects for the study of evolution in the deep biosphere. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2011 Since the days of Darwin, scientists have used the framework of the theory of evolution to explore the interconnectedness of life on Earth and adaptation of organisms to the ever-changing environment. The advent of molecular biology has advanced and accelerated the study of evolution by allowing direct examination of the genetic material that ...
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Assessment of the impact of selected changes in the deep geological repository model on its long-term safety [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020 The deep geological repository system provides long-term protection against the undesirable effects of ionizing radiation on the population and the environment.
Flamíková Dorota, Nečas Vladimír
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Integration of Deep Biosphere Research into the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program [PDF]
Scientific Drilling, 2010 An international workshop on the Integration of Deep Biosphere Research into the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) was held on 27–29 September 2009 in Potsdam.
Jens Kallmeyer, Kai Mangelsdorf
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