@article{2876,
  keywords = {carbon, DNA, nitrogen, bacterium, Biodiversity, carbon, DNA, ecosystem approach, fracture zone, genomics, gold mine, Article, astronomy, bacterium isolation, biostratigraphy, Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator, chemoautotroph, DNA binding, earth crust, ecological genetics, gene sequence, nonhuman, priority journal, single species ecosystem, species identification, sporogenesis, sulfate reducer, thermophile, Ammonia, carbon, ecosystem, Genes, Bacterial, genome, Bacterial, genomics, Gold, mining, Molecular Sequence Data, movement, Oxidation-Reduction, Peptococcaceae, phylogeny, sequence analysis, DNA, South Africa, Spores, Bacterial, Sulfates, Temperature, Water Microbiology, Bacteria (microorganisms)},
  author = {D. Chivian and E.L. Brodie and E.J. Alm and D.E. Culley and P.S. Dehal and T.Z. DeSantis and T.M. Gihring and A. Lapidus and L.-H. Lin and S.R. Lowry and D.P. Moser and P.M. Richardson and G. Southam and G. Wanger and L.M. Pratt and G.L. Andersen and T.C. Hazen and F.J. Brockman and A.P. Arkin and T.C. Onstott},
  title = {Environmental genomics reveals a single-species ecosystem deep within earth},
  abstract = {DNA from low-biodiversity fracture water collected at 2.8-kilometer depth in a South African gold mine was sequenced and assembled into a single, complete genome. This bacterium, Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator, composes >99.9\% of the microorganisms inhabiting the fluid phase of this particular fracture. Its genome indicates a motile, sporulating, sulfate-reducing, chemoautotrophic thermophile that can fix its own nitrogen and carbon by using machinery shared with archaea. Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator is capable of an independent life-style well suited to long-term isolation from the photosphere deep within Earth s crust and offers an example of a natural ecosystem that appears to have its biological component entirely encoded within a single genome.},
  year = {2008},
  journal = {Science},
  volume = {322},
  number = {5899},
  pages = {275-278},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-53749096964\&doi=10.1126\%2fscience.1155495\&partnerID=40\&md5=3fbef8f7ec55360565cee6b1653ba106},
  doi = {10.1126/science.1155495},
}