Morphological Plasticity in a Sulfur-Oxidizing Marine Bacterium from the SUP05 Clade Enhances Dark Carbon Fixation

Morphological Plasticity in a Sulfur-Oxidizing Marine Bacterium from the SUP05 Clade Enhances Dark Carbon Fixation

Identifying shifts in microbial metabolism across redox gradients will improve efforts to model marine oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) ecosystems. Here, we show that aerobic morphology and metabolism increase cell size, sulfur storage capacity, and carbon fixation rates in “Ca. Thioglobus autotrophicus,”...

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Main Authors: Vega Shah, Xiaowei Zhao, Rachel A. Lundeen, Anitra E. Ingalls, Daniela Nicastro, Robert M. Morris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-05-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
OMZ
SUP05
chemoautotrophy
oxygen
sulfur
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00216-19

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