Microbial diversity in cold seep sediments from the northern South China Sea

South China Sea (SCS) is the largest Western Pacific marginal sea. However, microbial studies have never been performed in the cold seep sediments in the SCS. In 2004, “SONNE” 177 cruise found two cold seep areas with different water depth in the northern SCS. Haiyang 4 area, where the water depth i...

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Main Authors: Yong Zhang, Xin Su, Fang Chen, Yuanyuan Wang, Lu Jiao, Hailiang Dong, Yongyang Huang, Hongchen Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-05-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111001307