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3 articles for “Hydrothermal vents”
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Deep Sea Benthic Viral Ecology: Impact of Virus-Encoded Auxiliary Metabolic Genes on Biogeochemical Cycling
Abstract: The deep ocean benthos, comprising abyssal plains, hadal trenches, cold seeps, hydrothermal vent chimneys, and sub-seafloor sediment basements, represents the largest and least explored biosphere on Earth. Operating under extreme hydrostatic pressure, low temperature (or extreme thermal gradients), and localized energy scarcity, benthic microbial communities govern fundamental global biogeochemical fluxes. Emerging high-throughput metagenomic, single-cell viromic, and transcriptomic evidence reveals that deep-sea viruses are not merely passive agents of microbial mortality, …
Published in International Journal of Marine Life · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2026 Read article
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Structural Analyses of SoxY and SoxZ Proteins from Epsilonproteobacterium Sulfurimonas denitrificans: A Structural Bioinformatics Approach
Abstract: Abstract:Molecular level participation of epsilonproteobacteria for the global sulfur oxidation phenomena is an essential zone to be indulged with. Epsilonproteobacteria aids in the microbial sulfur metabolism both at and beneath the seafloor. For the recycling of the inorganic sulfur compounds, microbial redox reactions are one of the responsible and most important reactions to maintain the environmental sulfur balance. These reactions are carried out by phylogenetically diverse sets of microorganisms. The …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Biotechnology · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 35–44 Read article
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Biotechnological Prospective of a Group of Beneficial Extremophiles Isolated from Different Sources
Abstract: Extremophiles thrive in terrestrial hot springs, hydrothermal vents, glacial ices, saline lakes, solar saltern and acidic and alkaline niches; moreover a group of the extremophiles may grow in household hazardous waste, solvents containing cleaning and polishing chemicals, heavy metals contaminated sites, or in several other habitats such as aphotic, anoxic, athalassohaline and thalassohaline habitats that were previously considered inhospitable for life. Beside aforementioned extreme niches, extremophiles also dwell in poultry …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Biotechnology · Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2020 · pp. 10–13 Read article