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Pink crustose algae covers the surface of a rock.
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Microbes Help Corals Pick a Home and Settle Down

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a piece of coral with white spots from infection
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Coral White Pox

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Searching for useful chemicals, ocean scientists grow bacteria associated with deep-sea coral on nutrient agar.
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Growing Bacteria from Corals

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A tiny piece of plastic photographed by a scanning electron micrograph.
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A Microbial Reef

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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What a Day for Ocean Microbes

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"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.
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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

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Marine Microbes

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Riftia tubeworm (Riftia pachyptila) colonies near hot spring.
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The Microbes That Keep Hydrothermal Vents Pumping

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A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.
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How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill

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