Microbes Shedding New Light on Life's Diversity

Monday, August 11, 2008 - 16:28 in Biology & Nature

University of Oregon biologist Jessica L. Green is among scientists focusing on microbes to study the diversity of life. In two recent papers, they show that temperature drives the richness of bacterial diversity in oceans, and that the diversity of plants and microbes by altitude is not exactly what biologists have long theorized.

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