In an unprecedented effort to catalog the Earth's known marine microbes, and explore the ocean's yet untold microbial diversity, Mitchell L. Sogin, Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory's ...

In the past decade, a series of remarkable advances have been made in the important and dynamic field of marine microbiology. To highlight this progress, Nature Reviews Microbiology has devoted ...

Researchers scouring the world's oceans have been forced to drastically revise estimates for the number of microbial species residing there after a census indicated up to one hundred times the ...

Giant undersea microbial mat among discoveries revealed by marine life census Date: April 19, 2010 Source: Census of Marine Life Summary: Explorers are puzzling out nature's purpose behind the ...

Microbial Community Compositions at the Genus Level for Sediment and Biomass Samples (IMAGE) ... Treatment of nitrogen-polluted sediment using marine anammox bacteria. Kumamoto University.

Representative image. ... The finding, published in the journal Nature Communications, contradicts the existing belief that the world has only 35,000 marine microbial species and 80 bacterial phyla.

Japanese photographer explores the marine world during night dives and reveals the illuminated beauty of plankton in stunning images. O post Marine photographer reveals the beauty and diversity of ...

A study of marine sediments from around the world shows that dormant bacterial endospores make up a significant proportion of total microbial biomass. For the first time, researchers have determined ...

T he journey into a squid isn’t an easy one. But the bioluminescent marine microbe Vibrio fischeri is up for the challenge. Usually a free-living bacterium, V. fischeri has evolved a part-time ...

Pollution from ships sunk during the First and Second World War are affecting undersea ecosystems. Millions of tonnes of munitions, fuel and other chemicals were sunk during the conflicts, with much ...