Diversity and distribution of subseafloor Thermococcales populations in diffuse hydrothermal vents at an active deep-sea volcano in the northeast Pacific Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Huber, Julie A ^a,b   Butterfield, David A ^c   Baross, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

ARCHAEA; THERMOCOCCALES;

EID: 34848850462     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JG000097     Document Type: Article

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