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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2015.20.1.53

Microbial Community Composition Associated with Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Gas Hydrate-Bearing Sediments in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea  

Cho, Hyeyoun (Department of Marine Sciences and Convergent Technology, Hanyang University)
Kim, Sung-Han (Department of Marine Sciences and Convergent Technology, Hanyang University)
Shin, Kyung-Hoon (Department of Marine Sciences and Convergent Technology, Hanyang University)
Bahk, Jang-Jun (Petroleum and Marine Resource Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resource)
Hyun, Jung-Ho (Department of Marine Sciences and Convergent Technology, Hanyang University)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.20, no.1, 2015 , pp. 53-62 More about this Journal
Abstract
To elucidate the microbial consortia responsible for the anaerobic methane oxidation in the methane hydrate bearing sediments, we compared the geochemical constituents of the sediment, the rate of sulfate reduction, and microbial biomass and diversity using an analysis of functional genes associated with the anaerobic methane oxidation and sulfate reduction between chimney site (UBGH2-3) on the continental slope and non-chimney site (UBGH2-10) on the basin of the Ulleung Basin. From the vertical profiles of geochemical constituents, sulfate and methane transition zone (SMTZ) was clearly defined between 0.5 and 1.5 mbsf (meters below seafloor) in the UBGH2-3, and between 6 and 7 mbsf at the UBGH2-10. At the UBGH2-3, the sulfate reduction rate (SRR) in the SMTZ exhibited was appeared to be $1.82nmol\;cm^{-3}d^{-1}$ at the depth of 1.15 mbsf. The SRR in the UBHG2-10 showed a highest value ($4.29nmol\;cm^{-3}d^{-1}$) at the SMTZ. The 16S rRNA gene copy numbers of total Prokaryotes, mcrA, (methyl coenzyme M reductase subunit A), and dsrA (dissimilatory sulfite reductase subunit A) showed the peaks in the SMTZ at both sites, but the maximum mcrA gene copy number of the UBGH2-10 appeared below the SMTZ (9.8 mbsf). ANME-1 was a predominant ANME (Anaerobic MEthanotroph) group in both SMTZs of the UBGH2-3 and -10. However, The sequences of ANME-2 were detected only at 2.2 mbsf of the UBGH2-3 where high methane flux was observed because of massive amount of gas hydrate at shallow depth. And Desulfosarcina-Desulfococcus (DSS) that is associated with ANME-2 was detected in 2.2 mbsf of the UBHG2-3. Overall results demonstrate that ANME-1 and ANME-2 are considered as significant archaeal groups related to methane cycle in the subsurface sediment of the East Sea, and ANME-2/DSS consortia might be more responsible for methane oxidation in the methane seeping region than in non-seeping region.
Keywords
AOM; gas hydrate; dsrAB gene; mcrA gene; sulfate-methane transition zone;
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