Deep-sea amphipods around cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts: Taxonomic diversity and selection of candidate species for connectivity analysis

• Akira Iguchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akira Iguchi, Miyuki Nishijima

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iguchi.a@aist.go.jp

  Affiliations Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Bioresources Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Nago-City, Okinawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8894-1977

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• Miyuki Nishijima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akira Iguchi, Miyuki Nishijima

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuki Yoshioka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioresources Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Nago-City, Okinawa, Japan

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• Aika Miyagi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioresources Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Nago-City, Okinawa, Japan

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• Ryuichi Miwa,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuichiro Tanaka,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Shogo Kato,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takaaki Matsui,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshiaki Igarashi,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nobuyuki Okamoto,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Atsushi Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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