Trichodesmium is unusual among marine microbes because it both "breathes" carbon dioxide like plants, while also taking nitrogen ... on nitrogen. Using advanced imaging technology rarely used in the marine sciences, the study lends support to the theory ...
... marine microbe Trichodesmium fixes nitrogen and carbon dioxide apparently at the same time has long puzzled ...
... designed to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways ... manufacturing processes. These processes use enzyme catalysts from the marine microbes, which lead to greener and cleaner manufacturing ...
... new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic ... like much, but this is the most phosphonate ever detected in a marine microbe," said Dyhrman. They selected many species of phytoplankton ...
... Stocker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recorded microbes swimming toward the chemical dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP ... swam toward the chemical. The researchers found that some marine microbes, including bacteria, are attracted to DMSP because ...
... at Scripps has identified a little-understood but common marine microbe as a red tide killer, and implicates ... of the need to understand the multifarious mechanisms by which microbes influence the functioning of the marine ecosystems,” Azam said. “This type ...
... , Species2000 Europa, CoML's International Census of Marine Microbes project, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. And it will serve as the taxonomic ...
... cell walls. Nanoflagellates, a group of marine microbes, prey on other microbes, such as bacteria and phytoplankton, for survival. These predatory protists play a critical role in marine ...
... of American Naturalist, may lead to better predictions of marine microbes' global-scale influence on climate ... , it is imperative to understand the foraging abilities and behavior of marine microbes at environmentally relevant scales," the authors ...
... of understanding in polar regions is the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM, http://icomm.mbl ... to sequence the DNA of more than 370,000 individual microbes living in 2-to-10 liter seawater ...
... to be done integrating our discoveries with research being done on other marine microbes in order to understand more about community interaction ... . But when you consider that these organisms share genes with other microbes and suites of genes with land plants, the possibilities ...
... from their left-handed brethren, impelling the microbes in opposite directions. This finding and the possibility of ... off-course," said Roman Stocker, a marine scientist at MIT and lead investigator on ...
... new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene ... team, which has successfully grown and studied the photosynthetic microbe, Prochlorococcus, in the lab — created a method for amplifying ...
Marine microbes that oxidise methane for energy may use a wider variety of oxidants than previously thought
... just a few genes can reveal not only the "lifestyle" of marine microbes but of their entire environments, new research ... researchers may be able to predict the types of microbes that thrive in specific marine environments by sampling the genomes ...
