Microbial reefs in the Black Sea fueled by anaerobic oxidation of methane.

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Published in Science on August 09, 2002

Authors

Walter Michaelis1, Richard Seifert, Katja Nauhaus, Tina Treude, Volker Thiel, Martin Blumenberg, Katrin Knittel, Armin Gieseke, Katharina Peterknecht, Thomas Pape, Antje Boetius, Rudolf Amann, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Friedrich Widdel, Jörn Peckmann, Nikolai V Pimenov, Maksim B Gulin

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. michaelis@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de

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