@article{2931,
  keywords = {Basalt, geochemistry, Groundwater, Photosynthesis, reduction, Salts, Metabasalt, Microbial biomes, microbiology, ground water, hydrogen, sulfate, Archean, biome, Groundwater, high energy environment, hydrogen, metabasalt, molecular analysis, salinity, sulfate, sulfate-reducing bacterium, Archean, Article, biome, environmental sustainability, Firmicutes, geochemical analysis, microbiology, photosynthesis, priority journal, Bacteria, Biodiversity, DNA, Ribosomal, ecosystem, Gold, hydrogen, mining, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Oxidation-Reduction, phylogeny, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, South Africa, Sulfates, Temperature, thermodynamics, time, Water Microbiology, Firmicutes},
  author = {L.-H. Lin and P.-L. Wang and D. Rumble and J. Lippmann-Pipke and E. Boice and L.M. Pratt and B.S. Lollar and E.L. Brodie and T.C. Hazen and G.L. Andersen and T.Z. DeSantis and D.P. Moser and D. Kershaw and T.C. Onstott},
  title = {Long-term sustainability of a high-energy, low-diweniff crystal-biome},
  abstract = {Geochemical, microbiological, and molecular analyses of alkaline saline groundwater at 2.8 kilometers depth in Archaean metabasalt revealed a microbial biome dominated by. a single phylotype affiliated with thermophilic sulfate reducers belonging to Firmicutes. These sulfate reducers were sustained by geologically produced sulfate and hydrogen at concentrations sufficient to maintain activities for millions of years with no apparent reliance on photosynthetically derived substrates.},
  year = {2006},
  journal = {Science},
  volume = {314},
  number = {5798},
  pages = {479-482},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33750332574\&doi=10.1126\%2fscience.1127376\&partnerID=40\&md5=9720d92d3f344f7da8d40873c90885ea},
  doi = {10.1126/science.1127376},
}