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Science 29 April 1983:
Vol. 220. no. 4596, pp. 497 - 498
DOI: 10.1126/science.220.4596.497
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Death of a Hadal Deep-Sea Bacterium After Decompression

A. ARISTIDES YAYANOS 1 and ALLAN S. DIETZ 1

1 Physiological Research Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093

An obligately barophilic bacterium that was recovered from a depth of 10,476 meters in the Pacific Ocean slowly lost colony-forming ability (assayed at 101.3 megapascals and 2°C) during incubation at atmospheric pressure and 0°C.

Submitted on July 1, 1982
Revised on December 9, 1982


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