Evidence for a growth zone for deep subsurface microbial clades in near-surface anoxic sediments
K. G. Lloyd, J. T. Bird, J. Buongiorno, E. Deas, R. Kevorkian, T. Noordhoek, J. Rosalsky, T. Roy
The paper shows that certain deep subsurface microbial clades increase in population size in shallow marine sediments, challenging the idea that they remain in a state of prolonged torpor during burial.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology · Sep 17, 2020Peer-reviewedMicrobiology