Microbial diversity in modern marine stromatolites,
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Laura K. Baumgartner,1† John R. Spear,2 Daniel H. Buckley,3 Norman R. Pace,4 R. Pamela Reid,5 Christophe Dupraz1 and Pieter T. Visscher1* 1Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA. 2Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA. 3Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 4Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. 5Marine Geology and Geophysics, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA.
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