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All Articles Tagged As: microbes
 | A new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of South Carolina has solved a 10-year-old mystery about the source of an essential nutrient in the ocean. ...> Full Article |
 | Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that populations ofS. islandicus are more diverse than previously thought, and that their diversity is driven largely by geographic isolation. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists study how microbes survive and thrive in deep, dark, noxious, oxygen-depleted, super-salty ecosystems that may resemble primordial environments ...> Full Article |
 | Biologists find world-record colony of amoebae in Houston cow pasture ...> Full Article |
 | Gases rising from deep within the Earth are fueling the world's highest-known microbial ecosystems, which have been detected near the rim of the 19,850-foot-high Socompa volcano in the Andes by a University of Colorado at Boulder research team. ...> Full Article |
 | Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers. ...> Full Article |
Scientists have long known that life can exist in some very extreme environments. But Earth continues to surprise us.
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An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. Researchers characterized the new microbe by analyzing its genetic material and said it appears to be an atypical member of the cyanobacteria that fixes nitrogen but lacks the genes for photosynthesis.
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 | Researchers have discovered that when the leaf of a plant is under attack by a pathogen, it can send out an S.O.S. to the roots for help, and the roots will respond by secreting an acid that brings beneficial bacteria to the rescue. ...> Full Article |
 | New microbe is the first member of the phylum Acidobacteria that manufactures its food from inorganic substances using light for energy ...> Full Article |
 | Pine beetle escalates biological warfare with mites by employing additional microbes to defend itself. ...> Full Article |
 | Microbes are dining on thousands of compounds that make up the oil seeping from the sea floor ...> Full Article |
 | Study has implications for how life might have once flourished on Mars ...> Full Article |
The microcosm in the seafloor
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 | Scientists have identified a process by which marine organisms influence the amount of atmospheric carbon the sea absorbs. ...> Full Article |
Study points to heat, not light, as engine driving biodiversity
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 | Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources, rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached to zooplankton or algae. ...> Full Article |
The sea floor off the coast of Eureka, California, is home to a diverse assemblage of microbes that scavenge methane from cold deep-sea vents. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a technique to directly capture these cells, lending insight into the diverse symbiotic partnerships that evolved among different species in an extreme environment.
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 | Microbial profiles serve as the ecological version of the human genome project ...> Full Article |
 | With the support of the Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), researchers from the CAS Institute of Microbiology (IOM) started a 5-million-yuan three-year research project on life in extreme conditions one year ago. Now the studies are making encouraging progress, announced the annual conference of the project held on 21 January in Beijing. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on their lab coats. They are hunting for extremophiles -- tough little creatures that thrive in conditions too extreme for most other living things. ...> Full Article |
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