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New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

A seagrass relies on symbiotic bacteria inside its roots to fix nitrogen. This is the first time scientists have demonstrated that this relationship occurs in a marine plant. Lush seagrass meadows ...

The researchers conducted various experiments to analyze the interaction between two species of marine bacteria from the ...

As humans, we often focus on viruses and bacteria because of their role in causing various, sometimes severe, diseases. However, an equally fascinating but lesser-known phenomenon is the ongoing ...

Thanks to marine bacteria that generated oxygen as a product of photosynthesis, levels of the gas rose about two billion years ago but stayed relatively low for another billion years. Then ...

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when ...

Bacteria and microbial eukaryotes play different roles in the marine ecosystem, and the potential shift towards bacterial dominance in warmer conditions could decrease biological productivity.

The study of the processes by which marine organisms grow and how factors such as temperature, nutrition, microbes, predators, and hormones influence development. (Green fluorescent amphioxus photo by ...

Linington noted that this made it challenging to determine how many microbes produced the metabolite in question. Deciphering microbial chatter is even more challenging in certain ecosystems. Anelize ...