Automatic Slide-Loader Fluorescence Microscope for Discriminative Enumeration of Subseafloor Life

The marine subsurface environment is considered the potentially largest ecosystem on Earth, harboring one-tenth of all living biota (Whitman et al., 1998) and comprising diverse microbial components (Inagaki et al., 2003, 2006; Teske, 2006; Inagaki and Nakagawa, 2008). In deep marine sediments, the...

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Main Authors: Fumio Inagaki, Yuki Morono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2010-04-01
Series:Scientific Drilling
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Online Access:http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd9_10.pdf#page=32