Scientists reveal the lifestyle evolution of wild marine bacteria

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 13:21 in Biology & Nature

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.

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