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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 805-814Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1991
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- National Science Foundation [OCE-0137206]
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Exploration
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- government of New Zealand
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Submarine hydrothermal vents are geochemically reactive habitats that harbour rich microbial communities. There are striking parallels between the chemistry of the H-2-CO2 redox couple that is present in hydrothermal systems and the core energy metabolic reactions of some modern prokaryotic autotrophs. The biochemistry of these autotrophs might, in turn, harbour clues about the kinds of reactions that initiated the chemistry of life. Hydrothermal vents thus unite microbiology and geology to breathe new life into research into one of biology's most important questions - what is the origin of life?
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