Texas-sized tract of single-celled clones

Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 08:14 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 metres across...

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