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Virginia P. Edgcomb
Researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Publications - 144
Citations - 6353
Virginia P. Edgcomb is an academic researcher from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anoxic waters & Hydrothermal vent. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 128 publications receiving 5398 citations. Previous affiliations of Virginia P. Edgcomb include Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences & Marine Biological Laboratory.
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Microbial diversity of hydrothermal sediments in the Guaymas Basin: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities.
Andreas P Teske,Kai-Uwe Hinrichs,Virginia P. Edgcomb,Alvin Gomez,David T. Kysela,Sean P. Sylva,Mitchell L. Sogin,Holger W. Jannasch +7 more
TL;DR: The combined evidence from bacterial phylogeny and molecular-isotopic data indicates an important role of some novel deeply branching bacteria in anaerobic methanotrophy in the trophic ecology of methane-rich hydrothermal vents.
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Benthic eukaryotic diversity in the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent environment.
TL;DR: By using sequence comparisons of PCR-amplified small subunit ribosomal RNAs, eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal vent environments of Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California is characterized and the adaptation to anoxic environments is evidenced by specific affinity of environmental sequences to aerotolerant anaerobic species in molecular trees.
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Molecular Phylogenies of Blastocystis Isolates from Different Hosts: Implications for Genetic Diversity Identification of Species and Zoonosis
Christophe Noël,Fabienne Dufernez,Delphine Gerbod,Virginia P. Edgcomb,Pilar Delgado-Viscogliosi,Lip-Chuen Ho,Mulkit Singh,René Wintjens,Mitchell L. Sogin,Monique Capron,Raymond J. Pierce,Lionel Zenner,Eric Viscogliosi +12 more
TL;DR: The results strongly suggest the existence of numerous zoonotic isolates with frequent animal- to-human and human-to-animal transmissions and of a large potential reservoir in animals for infections in humans.
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Gene expression in the deep biosphere
TL;DR: The first sub-seafloor metatranscriptomes from anaerobic Peru Margin sediment up to 159 metres below the sea floor are described and analysed, representing the first holistic picture of deep biosphere activities.
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Protistan microbial observatory in the Cariaco Basin, Caribbean. I. Pyrosequencing vs Sanger insights into species richness
Virginia P. Edgcomb,William D. Orsi,John Bunge,Sunok Jeon,Richard Christen,Chesley Leslin,Mark T. Holder,Gordon T. Taylor,Paula Suárez,Ramon Varela,Slava S. Epstein +10 more
TL;DR: This large data set provided the first statistically sound prediction of the total size of protistan richness in a large and varied environment, such as the Cariaco Basin: over 36 000 species, defined as almost full-length 18S rRNA gene sequence clusters sharing over 99% sequence homology.