A seafloor microbial biome hosted within incipient ferromanganese crusts

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 872-876

  Templeton, A S ^a   Knowles, E J ^a   Eldridge, D L ^a   Arey, B W ^b   Dohnalkova, A C ^b   Webb, S M ^c   Bailey, B E ^d   Tebo, B M ^e   Staudigel, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 71249105148     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo696     Document Type: Article

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