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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2005, p. 6375-6378, Vol. 71, No. 10
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.10.6375-6378.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Subsurface Microbial Methanotrophic Mats in the Black Sea{dagger}

Tina Treude,1,2* Katrin Knittel,1 Martin Blumenberg,3 Richard Seifert,3 and Antje Boetius1,4

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany,1 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany,2 Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany,3 International University of Bremen, Campusring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany4

Received 2 February 2005/ Accepted 22 April 2005

A nodule-shaped microbial mat was found subsurface in sediments of a gas seep in the anoxic Black Sea. This mat was dominated by ANME-1 archaea and consumed methane and sulfate simultaneously. We propose that such subsurface mats represent the initial stage of previously investigated microbial reefs.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany. Phone: 49 421 2028630. Fax: 49 421 2028690. E-mail: ttreude{at}mpi-bremen.de.

{dagger} Publication no. 15 of the GHOSTDABS project and publication no. 135 of the GEOTECHNOLOGIEN program.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2005, p. 6375-6378, Vol. 71, No. 10
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.10.6375-6378.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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