Validation of a Hypothesis: Colonization of Black Smokers by Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-373244
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.37324

Wirth, Reinhard ; Luckner, Manja ; Wanner, Gerhard

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Abstract

Newly erupted black smokers (hydrothermal vent chimneys) are sterile during their formation, but house hyperthermophilic microorganisms in substantial amounts in later stages. No direct experimental data exist by which mechanisms hyperthermophiles colonize newly erupted black smokers, but a scenario was proposed recently how this might happen. Here we combine high temperature light microscopy ...