Microbial flora in the deepest sea mud of the Mariana Trench
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- 15 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 152 (2) , 279-285
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(97)00211-5
Abstract
In an attempt to characterize the microbial flora on the deepest sea floor, we isolated thousands of microbes from a mud sample collected from the Mariana Trench. The microbial flora found at a depth of 10 897 m was composed of actinomycetes, fungi, non-extremophilic bacteria, and various extremophilic bacteria such as alkaliphiles, thermophiles, and psychrophiles. Phylogenetic analysis of Mariana isolates based on 16S rDNA sequences revealed that a wide range of taxa were represented.Keywords
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