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Science 8 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5792, p. 1360
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5792.1360l
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Oceanic cold seeps support specialized fauna dominated by tube worms, clams, and mussels, and show similarities to hydrothermal vent and whale-fall communities. Kiel and Little (p. 1429) use the mollusk fossil record to analyze the evolutionary history of seeps and show that seep genera are old, but not relic fauna and have undergone continuous immigration, and thus have evolutionary patterns similar to that of deep-sea biota.




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