Quantifying archaeal community autotrophy in the mesopelagic ocean using natural radiocarbon.
Quantifying archaeal community autotrophy in the mesopelagic ocean using natural radiocarbon.
A. Ingalls,Sunita R. Shah,4 Authors,A. Pearson
2006 · DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.0510157103
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 464 Citations
TLDR
The natural distribution of radiocarbon in archaeal membrane lipids is used to quantify the bulk carbon metabolism of archaea at two depths in the subtropical North Pacific gyre and suggests either that the marine archaealing community includes both autotrophs and heterotrophS or is a single population with a uniformly mixotrophic metabolism.