Thursday, July 21, 2016

Oceanographers grow, sequence genome of ocean microbe important to climate change

New light has been shed on a common but poorly understood bacteria known to live in low-oxygen areas in the ocean. By culturing and sequencing the microbe's entire genome, the oceanographers found that it significantly contributes to the removal of life-supporting nitrogen from the water in new and surprising ways.

from Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/29WBPgX
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