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a large salmon colored orb with tiny fluorescent green and blue orbs covering it
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Microbes Feast on Oil

An epifluorescence microphotograph of a bacterial community feasting on an oil...
a large salmon colored orb with tiny fluorescent green and blue orbs covering it
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A Bacterium's Super Powers

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, photos of pelicans,...
June 2020
a crocheted microbe
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Dinoflagellate Activity

A crocheted microbe. This is an activity where you can crochet a dinoflagellate, a...
a colored micrograph of microbes
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Silicibacter

This Silicibacter is a type of marine bacteria that lives on a specific host...
A paraglider flies over the ocean
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Trichodesmium

Trichodesmium is a filamentous cyanobacterium responsible for much of the...
A coastal marsh
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Gaseous Wetlands

Coastal wetlands are one ecosystem where methane-producing microbes thrive. ...
a grain of sand with microbes highlighted in green
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Microbial Life on a Grain of Sand

This image shows the microbial colonization of a sand grain. The grain’s surface...
a close up of bacteria
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Vibrio

Vibrio, a genus of rod-shaped bacteria that live in the ocean. ...
purple bacteria
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Cholera

Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria. ...
a close up of bacteria
overview

Marine Microbes

Invisible to the naked eye, there is a teeming world of microbes living in the...
July 2019
A tree that shows the different relationships between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
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Marine Microbe Tree of Life

A microbe is a microscopic organism, and it is not necessarily within a unified...
July 2019
Ocean Food Web Listing Image
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The Missing Microbial Link in the Ocean Food Web

This work was supported by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative of...
July 2019

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