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A three-foot-long wreckfish swims by a portion of an 18-story (60 meter) chimney in the Lost City hydrothermal vent field. The white part of the edifice in the foreground is actively venting highly alkaline fluids rich in methane, hydrogen, and abiogenic hydrocarbons. The warm fluids support dense microbial communities that thrive on the chimney surface and interior. (Credit: D. Kelley/University of Washington, IFE, URI-IAO, Lost City science party, NOAA)
U. WASHINGTON (US)—On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast group of understudies only too ready to step in when “star” microbes falter. At least that’s what happens at the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean—the only one of its kind found thus far. Continue…
