Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Mixing of meteoric and geothermal fluids supports hyperdiverse chemosynthetic hydrothermal communities

  • Daniel R. Colman,
  • Melody R. Lindsay,
  • Eric S. Boyd

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08499-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Chemosynthetic microbial communities in hydrothermal environments receiving meteoric and geothermal fluids are understudied. Here, Colman et al. use metagenomics to study one such community from a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, revealing exceptional biodiversity and unique functional potential.