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Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton.
Nature - 1 Feb 2001
López-García P, Rodríguez-Valera F, Pedrós-Alió C, Moreira D
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic information from ribosomal RNA genes directly amplified from the environment changed our view of the biosphere, revealing an extraordinary diversity of previously undetected prokaryotic lineages. Using ribosomal RNA genes from marine picoplankton, several new groups of bacteria and archaea have been identified, some of which are abundant. Little is known, however, about the diversity of the smallest...
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