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News Release 09-201
Deep-Sea Microbes May Answer Long-Standing Question About Earth's Nitrogen Cycle
Sediment samples from methane cold seeps off California shed light on mystery
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3-D fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) image of symbiotic microbes from the deep sea.
Credit: Victoria Orphan, Caltech
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Scientist Anne Dekas collects methane-seep sediments from the deep-sea submersible Alvin.
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Cores retrieve deep-ocean methane-seep sediment beneath white bacterial mats.
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A core from a deep-sea methane seep and clam bed collected by scientists aboard Alvin.
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The researchers' findings appear in the Oct. 16, 2009, issue of Science magazine.
Credit: Copyright 2009 AAAS
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