Researchers find key microbial indicator of ocean health

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 13:21 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the US Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute, has mapped the genome of a microbe that is silently helping to shape the ecology of oxygen-minimum areas in the ocean known as dead zones.

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