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It may not seem like a hospitable habitat, but deep within the sediments of the ocean floor reside thriving communities of microbes. In his Perspective, DeLong discusses a new study of sediment cores from the equatorial Pacific Ocean (D'Hondt et al.) that reveals surprising facts about the microbes living in this environment and the contribution of their metabolic activities to the ocean's energy cycle.
The author is in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: delong{at}mit.edu
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