Short Communication Phylogenetic Diversity of aprA Genes in Subseafloor Sediments on the Northwestern Pacific Margin off Japan
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1Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237–0061, Japan; 2Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603–1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940–2188, Japan; 3Department of Construction Systems Engineering, Anan National College of Technology, 265 Aoki Minobayashi, Anan, Tokushima 774–0017, Japan; and 4Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, JAMSTEC, Monobe B200, Nankoku, Kochi 783–8502, Japan
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Phylogenetic Diversity of aprA Genes in Subseafloor Sediments on the Northwestern Pacific Margin off Japan
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