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Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere".
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Aug 2006
Sogin Mitchell L, Morrison Hilary G, Huber Julie A, Mark Welch David, Huse Susan M, Neal Phillip R, Arrieta Jesus M, Herndl Gerhard J
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of marine microbes over billions of years predicts that the composition of microbial communities should be much greater than the published estimates of a few thousand distinct kinds of microbes per liter of seawater. By adopting a massively parallel tag sequencing strategy, we show that bacterial communities of deep water masses of the North Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vents are one to...
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