Cellular and Biochemical Evidence of Microbial Adaptation to High Pressure and Energy Limitation in the Subseafloor of the Puerto Rico Trench

Miguel Desmarais1, Corinna Breusing2, Alvaro Munoz Plominsky1, ChloƩ M. J. Baumas3, William D Orsi4, Yuki Morono5, Anne E Dekas3, Jeff Shovlowsky Bowman1, Steven D'Hondt2 and Douglas H Bartlett6, (1)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (4)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (5)JAMSTEC, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Kochi, Japan, (6)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States