linkedin post 2014-02-13 05:19:13

OCEANS ARE HUGE INTERACTIVE GENE POOLS which constantly recombine between viruses and phytoplankton making the focus on species rather less relevant.”
“”The team’s studies are showing that all Prochlorococcus strains “are very closely related, yet they display quite an array of physiologies, and astounding genetic diversity on top of that. It’s becoming clear, too, that this genetic diversity is at the heart of the extraordinary stability of Prochlorococcus in the oceans, which maintains steady population sizes over vast regions” of the sea.””
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