microbial community from deep-sea sediment can be changed by cultivation conditions, the deep-sea adapted barophilic bacteria survived in the community under high pressure cultivation, and the genus Pseudomonas which exists in a wide spread environment (6) was selected for the community under atmospheric pressure cultivation.
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