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Deep-sea vent chemoautotrophs: diversity, biochemistry and ecological significance.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Jul 2008
Nakagawa Satoshi, Takai Ken
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Deep-sea vents support productive ecosystems driven primarily by chemoautotrophs. Chemoautotrophs are organisms that are able to fix inorganic carbon using a chemical energy obtained through the oxidation of reduced compounds. Following the discovery of deep-sea vent ecosystems in 1977, there has been an increasing knowledge that deep-sea vent chemoautotrophs display remarkable physiological and phylogenetic...
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