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SUBMITTER: Scheckenbach F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2806785 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scheckenbach Frank F Hausmann Klaus K Wylezich Claudia C Weitere Markus M Arndt Hartmut H
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091210 1
Eukaryotic microbial life at abyssal depths remains "uncharted territory" in eukaryotic microbiology. No phylogenetic surveys have focused on the largest benthic environment on this planet, the abyssal plains. Moreover, knowledge of the spatial patterns of deep-sea community structure is scanty, and what little is known originates primarily from morphology-based studies of foraminiferans. Here we report on the great phylogenetic diversity of microbial eukaryotic communities of all 3 abyssal plai ...[more]