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Minute cyanobacteria more gluttonous than once thought

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Sarah L. Stern

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts have conducted a survey of the North Atlantic to determine the population and distribution of the colonial cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) genus Trichodesmium. The results show that, because of previous underestimations of their population, these bacteria may be responsible for much of the nitrogen production that has been unaccounted for in the Earth’s nitrogen cycle. The filamentous bacteria live in the ocean’s tropical and subtropical regions, which cover nearly half of the Earth’s...Read full article

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