Comparative study of subseafloor microbial community structures in deeply buried coral fossils and sediment matrices from the Challenger Mound in the Porcupine Seabight
Subseafloor sedimentary environments harbor remarkably diverse microbial communities. However, it remains unknown if the deeply buried fossils in these sediments play ecological roles in deep microbial habitats, or whether the microbial communities inhabiting such fossils differ from those in the su...
Published in: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00231 https://doaj.org/article/b306d2c52ed04cbabfd1b10336de40a0 |