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The bottom of Lake Baikal is characterized by the presence of diverse geological structures confined to fracture zones. In regions of methane seeps, mud volcanoes, and the underwater low-temperature vent, benthic communities have developed whose life activity is based on hydrocarbons coming from bottom sediments. The results presented in this article were obtained within the program Mir Submersibles on Baikal in 2008–2010.

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  1. Institute of Limnology, RAS Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Tamara Ivanovna Zemskaya, Tat’yana Yakovlevna Sitnikova & Oleg Mikhailovich Khlystov

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Original Russian Text © T.I. Zemskaya, T.Ya. Sitnikova, O.M. Khlystov, 2014, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2014, Vol. 84, No. 6, pp. 500–505.

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Zemskaya, T.I., Sitnikova, T.Y. & Khlystov, O.M. Baikal deep-zone studies. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 84, 183–187 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331614030125

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