Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Connelly, Douglas P ^a   Copley, Jonathan T ^b   Murton, Bramley J ^a   Stansfield, Kate ^b   Tyler, Paul A ^b   German, Christopher R ^c   Van Dover, Cindy L ^d   Amon, Diva ^b   Furlong, Maaten ^a   Grindlay, Nancy ^e   Hayman, Nicholas ^f   Hühnerbach, Veit ^a   Judge, Maria ^g   Le Bas, Tim ^a   McPhail, Stephen ^a   Meier, Alexandra ^b   Nakamura, Ko Ichi ^h   Nye, Verity ^b   Pebody, Miles ^a   Pedersen, Rolf B ⁱ   Plouviez, Sophie ^d   Sands, Carla ^a   Searle, Roger C ^j   Stevenson, Peter ^a   Taws, Sarah ^b   Wilcox, Sally ^k   more..

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^j DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOTA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; NONHUMAN; PLUME DISPERSION; SEA; SHRIMP; SPECIES DOMINANCE; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; CENTRAL AMERICA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALVINOCARIDIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CARIBBEAN REGION; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84856729593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1636     Document Type: Article

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