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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1982 December; 44(6): 1356-1361
Copyright © 1982, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Dependence of Reproduction Rate on Pressure as a Hallmark of Deep-Sea Bacteria

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093

ABSTRACT

Strains of bacteria in axenic culture were isolated from samples of depths between 1,957 and 10,476 m of the Pacific Ocean. All of the bacteria from this range of depths were barophilic. The pressure at which the rate of reproduction was maximal was found to be correlated with the depth of origin of the isolates.

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