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The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second life

Researchers in the Chisholm lab find Prochlorococcus can switch between drifting alone and living in attached communities, a discovery that could reshape estimates of how much carbon the ocean moves to the deep sea.

By MIT News

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The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second life
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