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SUBMITTER: Nunoura T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4371994 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nunoura Takuro T Takaki Yoshihiro Y Hirai Miho M Shimamura Shigeru S Makabe Akiko A Koide Osamu O Kikuchi Tohru T Miyazaki Junichi J Koba Keisuke K Yoshida Naohiro N Sunamura Michinari M Takai Ken K
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150223 11
Hadal oceans at water depths below 6,000 m are the least-explored aquatic biosphere. The Challenger Deep, located in the western equatorial Pacific, with a water depth of ∼11 km, is the deepest ocean on Earth. Microbial communities associated with waters from the sea surface to the trench bottom (0∼10,257 m) in the Challenger Deep were analyzed, and unprecedented trench microbial communities were identified in the hadal waters (6,000∼10,257 m) that were distinct from the abyssal microbial commun ...[more]