Posted on 03/06/2020 11:03:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
An international group of researchers report the discovery of numerous new species of Chlamydiae growing in deep Arctic Ocean sediments, in absence of any obvious host organisms. The researchers had been exploring microbes that live over 3 km below the ocean surface and several meters into the ocean seafloor sediment during an expedition to Loki's Castle, a deep-sea hydrothermal vent field located in the Arctic Ocean in-between Iceland, Norway, and Svalbard. This environment is devoid of oxygen and macroscopic life forms. Unexpectedly, the research team came across highly abundant and diverse relatives of Chlamydia. "Finding Chlamydiae in this environment was completely unexpected, and of course begged the question what on earth were they doing there?" says Jennah Dharamshi from Uppsala University in Sweden and lead author of the study.
The team of researchers had been working with metagenomic data—obtained by collectively sequencing the genetic material of all organisms that live in an environment—which doesn't rely on growing organisms in the lab. "The vast majority of life on earth is microbial, and currently most of it can't be grown in the lab," explains Thijs Ettema, professor in Microbiology at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands who led the work. "By using genomic methods, we obtained a more clear image on the diversity of life. Every time we explore a different environment, we discover groups of microbes that are new to science. This tells us just how much is still left to discover."
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Some man way back when should NOT have had sex with that mermaid(s)!
I swear honey, I got it from a hydrothermal vent!
Dont eat the clams
LOL! That’s where I went!
LOL! That’s where I went!
Nope, no correlation .
Must be man made global warming.
/s off.
Give the ocean the vaccine then
Quick, everybody run to Costco!!!
Gives a new meaning to Dr. Hook and the Medicine Men’s song
“Penicillin Penny.” However for chlamydia one uses tetracycline or doxcycline but it is a great song of old.
Click the link for this old classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8G410aI8Pk
Does this mean that Greenland sharks are the reason chlamydia exists up here? Since they are the only critter I know of that travels between that far below the Arctic ice cap and the surface...
Not surprised by chlamydia out break.
He had stories...bad bad. Beware the Submariner.
Beware the Mermaids
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