Oceanographers Grow, Sequence Genome of Ocean Microbe Important to Climate Change
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 09:21
in Biology & Nature
A University of Washington team has shed new light 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.