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Ocean's most abundant microbe found to live a sticky second life
Original: The ocean's most abundant 'loner' microbe has a sticky second life
Scientists report that Pelagibacter, the ocean's most abundant bacterium long thought to live as a free-floating loner, has a 'sticky' second life attached to particles. The finding suggests the microbe, long used as a model of independent marine life, interacts more with its environment than assumed, with implications for how carbon cycles through the oceans.
Why now: A new study overturns the long-held view that this dominant ocean microbe lives entirely a solitary, free-floating existence.
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