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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](/news/mmg/media/images/2-prochlorococcus_05--h_f.jpg)
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.](/news/mmg/media/images/3- Prochlorococcus_Carly Sanker- freeform_f.jpg)
Prochlorococcus in freeform, an artist's rendering of microbes in the ocean.
Credit: Carly Sanker, MIT
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![research vessel in the ocean](/news/mmg/media/images/BiG-RAPA-Wiki - 77_f.jpg)
Marine ecologists take to the high seas to collect water samples loaded with ocean microbes.
Credit: Paul Berube, MIT
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![equipment on ship for retrieving samples of ocean water for shipboard](/news/mmg/media/images/big-rapa-wiki - 59_edbdc2f3-3bd1-4372-a949-1243293285e3_f.jpg)
Preparing to retrieve samples of ocean water for shipboard and later shore-based analysis.
Credit: Paul Berube, MIT
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![instruments descending into ocean waters.](/news/mmg/media/images/7 -Sampling the ocean with a CTD_f.jpg)
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.](/news/mmg/media/images/9 mit9215_11_f.jpg)
Scanning electron micrograph of the marine microbe Prochlorococcus.
Credit: Anne Thompson, MIT
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