Geochemical energy sources for microbial
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Caroline Schmidt; Renaud Vuillemin; Christian Le Gall; FranΓ§oise Gaill; Nadine L
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Article
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2008
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Elsevier Science
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English
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At deep-sea hydrothermal vents, dense invertebrate communities prevail along chemoclines where the relaxation of redoxdisequilibria sustains chemolithoautotrophic microbial CO 2 -fixation. At the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, swarms of thousands of Rimicaris exoculata shrimps thus assemble along the turbulent