Analogs of Precambrian microbial communities formed de novo in Caucasian mineral water aquifers

Analogs of Precambrian microbial communities formed de novo in Caucasian mineral water aquifers

ABSTRACT The microbiome of deep continental aquifers is considered the most slowly evolving part of the biosphere. The Yessentukskoye Mineral Water Basin (YMWB), located in the pre-Caucasus region, contains three closely spaced but distinct aquifers, the Upper Cretaceous, the Lower Cretaceous, and t...

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Main Authors: Daria G. Zavarzina, Alexey A. Maslov, Alexander Y. Merkel, Nataliya A. Kharitonova, Alexandra A. Klyukina, Ekaterina I. Baranovskaya, Elena A. Baydariko, Evgeniy G. Potapov, Kseniya S. Zayulina, Andrey Y. Bychkov, Nikolay A. Chernyh, Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Sergey N. Gavrilov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2025-01-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
mineral water basins
aquifers
continental subsurface biosphere
anaerobic microbial community
Last Universal Common Ancestor
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02831-24
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