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Marine Microbes Overview

Curious about the microscopic world? This overview dives into everything to know.

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Screenshot from video showing illustrations of diverse and abundant marine microbes.

The Microbial Loop

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A tree that shows the different relationships between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.

Marine Microbe Tree of Life

Screenshot from video with large kelp leaves floating in the ocean.

A Kelp's Slime

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The Missing Microbial Link in the Ocean Food Web

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An assortment of microbe illustrations seen by Leeuwenhoek under the microscope.

Milestones In Marine Microbiology

Microbes Articles

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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Riftia tubeworm (Riftia pachyptila) colonies near hot spring.

The Microbes That Keep Hydrothermal Vents Pumping

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Meet the Tiny Bacteria That Give Anglerfishes Their Spooky Glow

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Life After Whale (On Whale Falls)

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The Bobtail Squid

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Cartoon t-shirts with got plankton.

The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

Screenshot from the video with illustrations of tiny ocean microbes.

How a Microscopic Team Alters the Course of Carbon in the Atlantic Ocean

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An assortment of microbe illustrations seen by Leeuwenhoek under the microscope.

Milestones In Marine Microbiology

A screenshot from the video showing large white tubeworms with red tips on seafloor.

How Giant Tubeworms Survive at Hydrothermal Vents

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a green crochet bacteria

Make Your Own: Cyanobacterium

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a crochet radiolarian

Make Your Own: Radiolarian

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Make Your Own: Bioluminescent Dinoflagellate

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