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'Dead' DNA feeds deep sea life
Email: Marta Paterlini - paterlm@mail.rockefeller.edu News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20051005-01
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Ten years of data collected by Italian researchers suggest that approximately 65% of DNA present in the world's oceans is found in deep-sea sediments, and 90% of that DNA is extracellular. This suggests the deep, extracellular organic material provides a major contribution to the cycling of phosphorus, the authors report in last week'sScience.
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