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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 66, 期 11, 页码 4829-+出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.11.4829-4833.2000
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Archaea are traditionally thought of as extremophiles, but recent studies have shown that marine planktonic Archaea make up a surprisingly Large percentage of ocean midwater microbial communities, up to 60% of the total prokaryotes, However, the basic physiology and contribution of Archaea to community microbial activity remain unknown. We have studied Archaea from 200-m depths of the northwest Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean near California, measuring the archaeal activity under simulated natural conditions (8 to 17 degreesC, dark and anaerobic) by means of a method called substrate tracking autoradiography fluorescence in situ hybridization (STARFISH) that simultaneously detects specific cell types by 16S rRNA probe binding and activity by microautoradiography. In the 200-m-deep Mediterranean and Pacific samples, cells binding the archaeal probes made up about 43 and 14% of the total countable cells, respectively. Our results showed that the Archaea are active in the uptake of dissolved amino acids from natural concentrations (nanomolar) with about 60% of the individuals in the archaeal communities showing measurable uptake. Bacteria showed a similar proportion of active cells. We concluded that a portion of these Archaea is heterotrophic and also appears to coexist successfully with Bacteria in the same water.
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