University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2019
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Description:
Extreme deep-sea environments are widespread and intensively studied in the last decades. They are of special interest since living organisms in those habitats happen to live at the expenses of the fluids emitted from the subseafloor via chemosynthesis. Unlike most common ecosystems, which rely on photosynthesis, primary producers obtain their carbon and energy sources through chemical reactions, i. e. sulfide oxidation, sulfate reduction, methane oxidation. Furthermore, the conditions given in hydrothermal vents are similar to those given in primitive Earth and metabolisms found in these e...