Simple foraminifera flourish at the ocean's deepest point

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5710, 2005, Pages 689-

  Todo, Yuko ^a,b   Kitazato, Hiroshi ^c   Hashimoto, Jun ^d   Gooday, Andrew J ^e  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U Dom Corporation   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

FORAMINIFERA;

BENTHIC FAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FORAMINIFER; GENE SEQUENCE; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTOZOA;

EID: 19944434311     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105407     Document Type: Short Survey

References (9)

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9. We thank the captain and crew of the KAIREI for assistance at sea and S. Tsuchida and D. Kim for processing the core sample. Supported in part by JAMSTEC, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, the Kaplan Foundation, and the Natural Environment Research Council.