Depth-varying seismogenesis on an oceanic detachment fault at 13°20′N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Strain Localization Along the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Detachment Fault System, Southwest Indian Ridge

Dominance of one bacterial phylotype at a Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Microbial community structure in natural environments has remained largely unexplored yet is generally considered to be complex. It is shown here that in a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent habitat, where food webs depend on prokaryotic primary production, the surface microbial community consists largely of only one bacterial phylogenetic type (phylotype) as indicated by the dominance ofa si...

Feeding Ecology of Coryphaenoides rupestris from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

The Macrourid fish roundnose grenadier, Coryphaenoides rupestris, is one of the most common benthopelagic fishes on the northern mid-Atlantic Ridge. The ecology of the species is comparatively well studied in continental slope waters of the North Atlantic, but not on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a central mid-ocean area of its distribution. In total, 166 specimens from the RV G.O. Sars crui...

Long-range backscatter from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Acoustic backscatter eturns measured with a vertical source and horizontal receiving array are beamformed and charted to respective scattering sites on the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). Well-defined patterns of high-level backscatter esembling bottom morphology occur within the direct path and at convergence zone ranges. Measured backscatter is compared with modeled two-way tra...

Delta-proteobacterial SAR324 group in hydrothermal plumes on the South Mid-Atlantic Ridge

In the dark ocean, the SAR324 group of Delta-proteobacteria has been associated with a chemolithotrophic lifestyle. However, their electron transport chain for energy generation and information system has not yet been well characterized. In the present study, four SAR324 draft genomes were extracted from metagenomes sampled from hydrothermal plumes in the South Mid-Atlantic Ridge. We describe n...