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News Release 14-059
Octillions of microbes in the seas: Ocean microbes show incredible genetic diversity
In a few drops of seawater, one species, hundreds of subpopulations
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Artist's interpretation of Prochlorococcus diversity in a drop of seawater.
Credit: Carly Sanker, MIT
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Prochlorococcus in freeform, an artist's rendering of microbes in the ocean.
Credit: Carly Sanker, MIT
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Marine ecologists take to the high seas to collect water samples loaded with ocean microbes.
Credit: Paul Berube, MIT
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Preparing to retrieve samples of ocean water for shipboard and later shore-based analysis.
Credit: Paul Berube, MIT
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Down to the deep blue sea: Instruments descend into ocean waters.
Credit: Paul Berube, MIT
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Scanning electron micrograph of the marine microbe Prochlorococcus.
Credit: Anne Thompson, MIT
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