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EXTREMOPHILES
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 733-742Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-017-0938-y
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Hyperthermophiles; Archaea; Diversity; Hydrothermal marine shallow vents
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L002035/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/L002035/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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To obtain new insights into community compositions of hyperthermophilic microorganisms, defined as having optimal growth temperatures of 80 degrees C and above, sediment and water samples were taken from two shallow marine hydrothermal vents (I and II) with temperatures of 100 degrees C at Vulcano Island, Italy. A combinatorial approach of denaturant gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and metagenomic sequencing was used for microbial community analyses of the samples. In addition, enrichment cultures, growing anaerobically on selected polysaccharides such as starch and cellulose, were also analyzed by the combinatorial approach. Our results showed a high abundance of hyperthermophilic archaea, especially in sample II, and a comparable diverse archaeal community composition in both samples. In particular, the strains of the hyperthermophilic anaerobic genera Staphylothermus and Thermococcus, and strains of the aerobic hyperthermophilic genus Aeropyrum, were abundant. Regarding the bacterial community, e-Proteobacteria, especially the genera Sulfurimonas and Sulfurovum, were highly abundant. The microbial diversity of the enrichment cultures changed significantly by showing a high dominance of archaea, particularly the genera Thermococcus and Palaeococcus, depending on the carbon source and the selected temperature.
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