Changes in Microbial Communities, Including both Uncultured and Culturable Bacteria, with Mid-Ocean Ballast-Water Exchange during a Voyage from Japan to Australia

• Akiko Tomaru ,

  * E-mail: akotoma@gmail.com

  ¶¤ Current address: Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Affiliation Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masanobu Kawachi,

  Affiliation Environmental Biology Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Mikihide Demura,

  Affiliation Environmental Biology Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yasuwo Fukuyo

  Affiliation Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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