Hydrothermal vent microbial communities: A fossil perspective

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 317-319

  Little, Crispin T S ^a   Thorseth, Ingunn H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

EID: 0036907872     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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