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Fully booked at the bottom of the sea: There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-07-21

Whether summer or winter, midnight sun or polar night—the sand on the ocean floor is always inhabited by the same bacteria. Although the microbial communities differ between different ocean regions, they do not change between the seasons. Presumably, there is simply no room for change. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, now describe this phenomenon in a study published in the journal ISME Communications.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-07-fully-bottom-sea-room-bacteria.html