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SUBMITTER: Duarte CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6976674 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Duarte Carlos M CM Røstad Anders A Michoud Grégoire G Barozzi Alan A Merlino Giuseppe G Delgado-Huertas Antonio A Hession Brian C BC Mallon Francis L FL Afifi Abdulakader M AM Daffonchio Daniele D
Scientific reports 20200122 1
The previously uncharted Afifi brine pool was discovered in the eastern shelf of the southern Red Sea. It is the shallowest brine basin yet reported in the Red Sea (depth range: 353.0 to 400.5 m). It presents a highly saline (228 g/L), thalassohaline, cold (23.3 °C), anoxic brine, inhabited by the bacterial classes KB1, Bacteroidia and Clostridia and the archaeal classes Methanobacteria and Deep Sea Euryarcheota Group. Functional assignments deduced from the taxonomy indicate methanogenesis and ...[more]