The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second life

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation at 20 Oct, 21:15 UTC

Researchers in the Chisholm lab find Prochlorococcus can switch between drifting alone and living in attached communities, a discovery that could reshape estimates of how much carbon the ocean moves to the deep sea.

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• T1The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second lifeMIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation20 Oct, 21:15