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            https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3269-2013
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                    https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3269-2013
                    © Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under 
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                the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Limitations of microbial hydrocarbon degradation at the Amon mud volcano (Nile deep-sea fan)
J. Felden
                                            Helmholtz – Max Planck Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    
                                            MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    A. Lichtschlag
                                            Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    
                                            present address: National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus,  Southampton, UK
                                        
                                    F. Wenzhöfer
                                            Helmholtz – Max Planck Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    
                                            MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    D. de Beer
                                            Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    T. Feseker
                                            MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    P. Pop Ristova
                                            Helmholtz – Max Planck Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    
                                            MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    G. de Lange
                                            Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
                                        
                                    A. Boetius
                                            Helmholtz – Max Planck Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    
                                            MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen, Germany
                                        
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