Hydrochemical Characteristics and Evolution Mode of Cold Seeps in the Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea by Zhifeng Wan, Chongmin Chen, Jinqiang Liang, Wei Zhang, Wei Huang, Pibo Su

“…At stations A, B, and C, inactive cold seeps with dead clams, cold seep leakage with live clams, and active cold seeps with a rich mussel presence, respectively, were observed. …”
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Gas Hydrate Accumulation and Occurrence Associated with Cold Seep Systems in the Northern South China Sea: An Overview by Wei Zhang, Jinqiang Liang, Qianyong Liang, Jiangong Wei, Zhifeng Wan, Junxi Feng, Wei Huang, Jing Zhao, Miaomiao Meng, Wei Deng, Chongmin Chen

“…Studying deep-water cold seep systems is of great significance to gas hydrate exploration due to their close relationship. …”
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An Areal Assessment of Subseafloor Carbon Cycling in Cold Seeps and Hydrate-Bearing Areas in the Northern South China Sea by Yanping Zhang, Min Luo, Yu Hu, Hongbin Wang, Duofu Chen

“…In comparison with other cold seeps around the world, the biogeochemical rates in the northern SCS are generally lower than those in active continental margins and special environments (e.g., the Black sea) but are comparable with those in passive continental margins. …”
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Revisiting shallow glauconite factories: intertwined fates of glauconite and iron by Tribovillard, Nicolas

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Degenerated vision, altered lipid metabolism, and expanded chemoreceptor repertoires enable Lindaspio polybranchiata to thrive in deep-sea cold seeps by Yujie Yan, Inge Seim, Yang Guo, Xupeng Chi, Zhaoshan Zhong, Dantong Wang, Mengna Li, Haining Wang, Huan Zhang, Minxiao Wang, Chaolun Li

“…Abstract Background Lindaspio polybranchiata, a member of the Spionidae family, has been reported at the Lingshui Cold Seep, where it formed a dense population around this nascent methane vent. …”
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Seismic Diffraction Analysis of a Fluid Escape Pipe beneath the Submarine Gas Bubble Plume in the Haima Cold Seep Area by Bin Liu, Li Yang, Jiangxin Chen, Leonardo Azevedo, Tonggang Han

“…Pipe structures are considered as fluid conduits beneath cold seeps. These structures have been observed in many geological settings and are widely accepted as the most critical pathway for fluid migration. …”
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First record of a cold-seep squat lobster Munidopsis lauensis Baba and de Saint Laurent, 1992 (Anomura: Galatheoidea) from Indian waters by Maria-Judith Gonsalves, Shivam Tiwari, Vinay P. Padate, V. Deepak Samuel, Jigneshkumar Trivedi

“…Abstract The present study reports the first zoogeographical record of the squat lobster Munidopsis lauensis Baba and de Saint Laurent, 1992 from a cold-seep site in the Krishna-Godavari Basin (Bay of Bengal), Northern Indian Ocean. …”
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Descriptive ecology of abyssal decapods from Chapopote Knoll (southwestern Gulf of Mexico) by Adriana Gaytán-Caballero, Florence Schubotz, Ian R. MacDonald, Elva G. Escobar-Briones

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Distribution and environmental drivers of macrofaunal nematode communities across gradients of methane seepage at cold seeps on Hikurangi Margin (New Zealand) and potential implications of disturbance from gas hydrate extraction by Daniel Leduc, Ashley A. Rowden, Ashley A. Rowden, Sarah Seabrook, David A. Bowden, Andrew R. Thurber, Andrew R. Thurber, Jane Halliday, Cliff S. Law, Cliff S. Law, Olivia S. Pereira, Bethany G. Whitten, Andrew Marriner

“…Cold seeps are areas characterised by specialized biological communities that rely on chemosynthesis for their nutrition. …”
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A new species of genus Provanna (Gastropoda, Abyssochrysoidea) from gas hydrate-bearing sediments of the northern South China Sea by Cong Wu, Fang Chen, Ying Tian, Kazutaka Amano, Xin Su

“…Despite the increasing interest in cold seeps in South China Sea in recent decades, how this genus is distributed in this area is largely unknown. …”
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Unexpected scarcity of ANME archaea in hydrocarbon seeps within Monterey Bay by A. C. Semler, A. E. Dekas

“…Here, we sampled two cold seeps in Monterey Bay, CA – Clam Field and Extrovert Cliff – which have been known for decades but never characterized microbiologically. …”
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Deep-Sea Ecosystems as an Unexpected Source of Antibiotic Resistance Genes by Wei Zhang, Yingdong Li, Yunmeng Chu, Hao Liu, Hongmei Jing, Qianfeng Xia

“…Unique microbial life in deep-sea ecosystems, especially in deep-sea cold seeps sediments (DSCSS), deep-sea waters (DSW), and trench waters (TW), could be a valuable source of new antibiotics and resistance discovery.…”
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The contrasting origins of glauconite in the shallow marine environment highlight this mineral as a marker of paleoenvironmental conditions by Tribovillard, Nicolas, Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane, Abraham, Romain, Ventalon, Sandra, Delattre, Marion, Baudin, François

“…The only identified Jurassic facies of the Boulonnais where glauconite is both relatively abundant, large in size and unsorted (non reworked) are oyster reefs that formed at the outlet of cold seeps linked to a late-Jurassic synsedimentary tectonic (Kimmeridgian, Tithonian). …”
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Sanctuary for vulnerable Arctic species at the Borealis Mud Volcano by Giuliana Panieri, Claudio Argentino, Alessandra Savini, Bénédicte Ferré, Fereshteh Hemmateenejad, Mari H. Eilertsen, Rune Mattingsdal, Sofia P. Ramalho, Tor Eidvin, Sarah Youngs, Beckett Casper Colson, Anna Pauline Miranda Michel, Jason Alexander Kapit, Denise Swanborn, Alex D. Rogers, Ines Barrenechea Angeles, Stéphane Polteau, Dimitri Kalenitchenko, Stefan Buenz, Adriano Mazzini

“…This discovery underscores the ecological significance of cold seep ecosystems in the Polar North Atlantic, highlighting their role in biodiversity by serving as refuges for marine species and emphasizing the need for their conservation.…”
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Shallow-water mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) adapt to deep-sea environment through transcriptomic and metagenomic insights by Luyang Sun, Xiaolu Liu, Li Zhou, Hao Wang, Chao Lian, Zhaoshan Zhong, Minxiao Wang, Hao Chen, Chaolun Li

“…This study examined transcriptomic and microbiome changes in shallow-water mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis exposed to deep-sea conditions at the Site-F cold seep in the South China Sea. Results reveal complex gene expression adjustments in stress response, immune defense, homeostasis, and energy metabolism pathways during adaptation. …”
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