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News Release 14-005
Researchers report on new dimension of marine cyanobacteria
Marine scientists at NSF's Center for Microbial Oceanography discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes
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Scanning electron micrograph of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, with small vesicles visible near the cell surface.
Credit: Steven Biller, MIT
The researchers' findings are described in the Jan. 10, 2014, issue of Science.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2014
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