First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust

• Olivia U. Mason,

  Current address: Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  Affiliation College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Tatsunori Nakagawa,

  Current address: College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Martin Rosner,

  Affiliation Petrology of the Oceanic Crust, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Joy D. Van Nostrand,

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Jizhong Zhou,

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Akihiko Maruyama,

  Affiliation Research Institute of Biological Resources, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Martin R. Fisk,

  Affiliation College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Stephen J. Giovannoni

  * E-mail: steve.giovannoni@oregonstate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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