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News Release 15-079

Research spotlights a previously unknown microbial 'drama' playing in the Southern Ocean

Discovery highlights both competition and cooperation between algae and bacteria for iron and vitamins that may have consequences for life in a warming ocean

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Bacteria attached to phytoplankton

Electron micrograph of an Antarctic sea ice diatom, Amphiprora, with attached bacterial cells, illustrating the association between diatoms and bacteria in the Southern Ocean ecosystem.

Credit: Greg Wanger


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Researchers at the ice edge

Researchers at the ice edge in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Credit: Andrew Allen, Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the J. Craig Venter Institute


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