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Who lives in the sea floor?

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The sediments that blanket the sea floor contain tremendous numbers of microorganisms. This deep marine biosphere, which is probed by deep-sea drilling, is a new frontier for microbiologists and geochemists.

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  1. Ann Pearson is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. pearson@eps.harvard.edu,

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