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"why are we most likely to learn about the early history of the early by studying the rocs from the moon rather than those on the Earth ?"
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Microbial Population Structures in the Deep Marine Biosphere
NAI’s Marine Biological Laboratory Team has a new paper in this week’s Science detailing aspects of population structure for microbial communities at two neighboring hydrothermal vents. Using environmental DNA sequencing techniques, they found the two populations reflect the geochemical conditions of each vent.
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