ena-STUDY-MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY-28-09-2016-20:35:17:653-531
Subseafloor microbes at Mid-Cayman Rise
The Mid-Cayman Rise hosts two geochemically distinct vent fields: Von Damm, situated in ultramafic rock, and Piccard, a mafic vent field that is the deepest known vent site in the world. We have analyzed and compared taxonomic and metabolic diversity as well as strain-level variation from 11 metagenomes from Von Damm and 4 metagenomes from Piccard.
The Mid-Cayman Rise hosts two geochemically distinct vent fields: Von Damm, situated in ultramafic rock, and Piccard, a mafic vent field that is the deepest known vent site in the world. We have analyzed and compared taxonomic and metabolic diversity as well as strain-level variation from 11 metagenomes from Von Damm and 4 metagenomes from Piccard.