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Marine microbe contains multitudes

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-11-19

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean's North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, well-lit surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep.

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