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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](/news/mmg/media/images/bacteria_f.jpg)
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](/news/mmg/media/images/ice edge_f.jpg)
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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