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Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise
Communicated by Stanley R. Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, June 28, 2010 (received for review May 24, 2010)

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- Published in issue August 10, 2010.
- Published first July 21, 2010.
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- C. R. Germana,1,
- A. Bowena,
- M. L. Colemanb,
- D. L. Honigc,
- J. A. Huberd,
- M. V. Jakubae,
- J. C. Kinseya,
- M. D. Kurza,
- S. Leroyf,
- J. M. McDermotta,
- B. Mercier de Lépinayg,
- K. Nakamurah,
- J. S. Seewalda,
- J. L. Smithd,
- S. P. Sylvaa,
- C. L. Van Doverc,
- L. L. Whitcombi, and
- D. R. Yoergera
- aWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543;
- bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Institute and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109;
- cDuke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516;
- dMarine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543;
- eAustralian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia;
- fInstitut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7193, Paris, France;
- gCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique—GéoAzur, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France;
- hNational Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan; and
- iLaboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2681
Communicated by Stanley R. Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, June 28, 2010 (received for review May 24, 2010)
Footnotes
- 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cgerman{at}whoi.edu.
Author contributions: C.R.G., A.B., M.L.C., J.A.H., S.L., B.M.d.L., J.S., C.L.V.D., L.L.W., and D.R.Y. designed research; C.R.G., A.B., M.L.C., D.L.H., J.A.H., M.V.J., J.C.K., M.D.K., J.M.M., K.-i.N., J.S., J.L.S., S.P.S., C.L.V.D., L.L.W., and D.R.Y. performed research; A.B., J.A.H., M.V.J., J.C.K., M.D.K., S.L., J.M.M., B.M.d.L., K.-i.N., J.S., J.L.S., S.P.S., L.L.W., and D.R.Y. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; C.R.G., A.B., M.L.C., D.L.H., J.A.H., M.V.J., J.C.K., M.D.K., S.L., J.M.M., B.M.d.L., K.-i.N., J.S., J.L.S., S.P.S., C.L.V.D., L.L.W., and D.R.Y. analyzed data; and C.R.G., M.L.C., J.A.H., M.D.K., J.S., J.L.S., and C.L.V.D. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data deposition: Microbiological sequences have been deposited in the VAMPS database, https://vamps.mbl.edu (Dataset BPC_CH_V6V4).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1009205107/-/DCSupplemental.
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