Microbial Community Diversity Within Sediments from Two Geographically Separated Hadal Trenches by Logan M. Peoples, Eleanna Grammatopoulou, Michelle Pombrol, Xiaoxiong Xu, Oladayo Osuntokun, Jessica Blanton, Eric E. Allen, Clifton C. Nunnally, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Daniel J. Mayor, Daniel J. Mayor, Douglas H. Bartlett

“…In contrast, the Mariana Trench, and deeper sediments in both trenches, were enriched in taxa predicted to break down recalcitrant material and contained other uncharacterized lineages. …”
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Distribution and structure of deep-sea demersal fish assemblages across the central and western Pacific Ocean using data from undersea imagery by Gina M. Selig, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Peter J. Auster, Bruce C. Mundy, Bruce C. Mundy, Christopher D. Kelley

“…Such distribution patterns suggest that the four Marine National Monuments (Papahānaumokuākea, Marianas Trench, Pacific Remote Islands, and Rose Atoll Marine National Monuments, encompassing an area of 3,063,223 km2) are not replicates of diversity, but complementary components of the regional fauna.…”
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