Dataset: Most probable number of various thermophiles, and total CH4 produced in microcosms from hydrothermal sampling sites from 5 cruises to the Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge from 2012 to 2015 (NeMO2015 project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedVersion (2016-11-08)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: James Holden (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Co-Principal Investigator: David A. Butterfield (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Co-Principal Investigator: William Chadwick (Oregon State University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Program: Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

Project: Event response to an eruption at Axial Seamount (NeMO2015)

This dataset includes Most-Probable Number (MPN, L-1) estimates of heterotrophs, H2-producing heterotrophs, methanogens, and non-methanogenic hydrogenotrophs that grow at 55 C and 80 C.

Relevant Reference: Topcuoglu, BD, Stewart LC, Morrison HG, Butterfield DA, Huber JA and Holden JF (2016) Hydrogen Limitation and Syntrophic Growth among Natural Assemblages of Thermophilic Methanogens at Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents. Front. Microbiol. 7:1240. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01240

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