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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 1999, p. 2253-2255, Vol. 65, No. 5
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Rapid Microbial Production of Filamentous Sulfur Mats at Hydrothermal Ventsdagger

Craig D. Taylor,1,* Carl O. Wirsen,1 and Françoise Gaill2

Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543,1 and Laboratoire de Biologie Marine, UMR 7622 CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France2

Received 4 January 1999/Accepted 1 March 1999

During recent oceanographic cruises to Pacific hydrothermal vent sites (9°N and the Guaymas Basin), the rapid microbial formation of filamentous sulfur mats by a new chemoautotrophic, hydrogen sulfide-oxidizing bacterium was documented in both in situ and shipboard experiments. Observations suggest that formation of these sulfur mats may be a factor in the initial colonization of hydrothermal surfaces by macrofaunal Alvinella worms. This novel metabolic capability, previously shown to be carried out by a coastal strain in H2S continuous-flow reactors, may be an important, heretofore unconsidered, source of microbial organic matter production at deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, MS 33, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Phone: (508) 289-2354. Fax: (508) 457-2134. E-mail: ctaylor{at}whoi.edu.

dagger Contribution number 9887 of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 1999, p. 2253-2255, Vol. 65, No. 5
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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