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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

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

Ocean Food Web Listing Image

The Missing Microbial Link in the Ocean Food Web

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

Milestones In Marine Microbiology

Microbes Articles

"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.

Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.

Seaside Lichens

a green crochet bacteria

Make Your Own: Cyanobacterium

a crochet radiolarian

Make Your Own: Radiolarian

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Make Your Own: Bioluminescent Dinoflagellate

Ocean Food Web Listing Image

The Missing Microbial Link in the Ocean Food Web

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

Marine Microbe Tree of Life

a large salmon colored orb with tiny fluorescent green and blue orbs covering it

A Bacterium's Super Powers

A zoomed in photograph of dyed animal cells.

Meet Microsporidia, a Marine Microbe Related to Mushrooms

Red and white riftia worms living in a deep-sea vent.

Riftia Worms: One Species at a Time

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Marine Microbes

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

Milestones In Marine Microbiology

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