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| Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea E Ramirez-Llodra, PA Tyler, MC Baker, OA Bergstad, MR Clark, ... PLoS one 6 (8), e22588, 2011 | 891 | 2011 |
| Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates CL Van Dover, CR German, KG Speer, LM Parson, RC Vrijenhoek science 295 (5558), 1253-1257, 2002 | 656 | 2002 |
| An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent JT Beatty, J Overmann, MT Lince, AK Manske, AS Lang, RE Blankenship, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (26), 9306-9310, 2005 | 437 | 2005 |
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