“…To date, gene sequences affiliated with Meiothermus have been detected at three other serpentinizing sites: Manleluag in the Zambales Ophiolite, Philippines (Woycheese et al, 2015), Prony Bay, New Caledonia (Mei et al, 2016), and La Crouen, New Caledonia (Quéméneur et al, 2021). Sequences related to another member of Deinococcota phlyum, the genus Truepera, have been detected somewhat more widely in serpentinizing environments including Cabeço de Vide, Portugal (Tiago & Veríssimo, 2013), Prony Bay, New Caledonia (Frouin et al, 2018;Mei et al, 2016), the Coast Range Ophiolite, USA (Sabuda et al, 2020(Sabuda et al, , 2021, Voltri, Italy (Quéméneur et al, 2015), and the Chimaera Seeps, Turkey (Neubeck et al, 2017). MAGs related to Truepera in DNA extracted from Coast Range Ophiolite groundwaters encoded homologs of proteins involved in a wide array of processes including oxygen tolerance, oxygen respiration, and nitrate respiration (Sabuda et al, 2021), and transcripts of genes encoding enzymes involved in sulfide oxidation, thiosulfate oxidation, and thiosulfate disproportionation were also affiliated with Truepera (Sabuda et al, 2020).…”