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Primary producing prokaryotic communities of brine, interface and seawater above the halocline of deep anoxic lake L'Atalante, Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The ISME journal - 1 Dec 2007
Yakimov Michail M, La Cono Violetta, Denaro Renata, D'Auria Giuseppe, Decembrini Franco, Timmis Kenneth N, Golyshin Peter N, Giuliano Laura
Abstract excerpt
Meso- and bathypelagic ecosystems represent the most common marine ecological niche on Earth and contain complex communities of microorganisms that are for the most part ecophysiologically poorly characterized. Gradients of physico-chemical factors (for example, depth-related gradients of light, temperature, salinity, nutrients and pressure) constitute major forces shaping ecosystems at activity 'hot spots' on...
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