Archaeal and bacterial communities in deep-sea hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts on old seamounts of the northwestern Pacific

• Shota Nitahara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shota Nitahara, Shingo Kato

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shingo Kato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shota Nitahara, Shingo Kato

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, Ore Genesis Research Unit, Project Team for Development of New-generation Research Protocol for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Akira Usui,

  Affiliation Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, Kochi-shi, Kochi, Japan

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• Tetsuro Urabe,

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Katsuhiko Suzuki,

  Affiliation Ore Genesis Research Unit, Project Team for Development of New-generation Research Protocol for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Akihiko Yamagishi

  * E-mail: yamagish@toyaku.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

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