R.E. Price

The paper investigates microbial diversity and geochemistry in shallow-water hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of Naples, finding that fluid chemistry shaped microbial communities and revealing two new vent sites.

The paper cultivates microbial communities from the Prony Bay hydrothermal field using different carbon sources in hydrogen-fed bioreactors and finds that non-glycine substrates support diverse taxa, including aerobic genera.