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Assimilation of 14C−bicarbonate by microbial communities (shown in Fig. 1) from active (n = 8; biologically independent samples) and inactive (n = 8) hydrothermal vent deposits, normalized for cell abundance (Extended Data Table 1). Black line indicated mean value.
