Texas-sized tract of single-celled clones
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
A Rice University study of microbes from a Houston-area cow pasture has confirmed once again that everything is bigger in Texas, even the single-celled stuff. The tests revealed the first-ever report of a large, natural colony of amoebae clones -- a Texas-sized expanse measuring at least 12 meters across.