A team of researchers at the University of Vienna, working with a colleague from the University of Tsukuba, has found that the vast majority of deep-water microbes are mostly inactive. The group describes their long-term study of microbes at great depths in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Mediterranean Sea in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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