Colonial Tube-Dwelling Ciliates Influence Methane Cycling and Microbial Diversity within Methane Seep Ecosystems
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1 Integrative Oceanography Division, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, USA, 2 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, 3 Department of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 4 Marine Biology Research Division, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, USA
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