Microbes: The Microscopic Ocean

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Microbes: The Microscopic Ocean

Lyngbya is a filamentous cyanobacteria usually having many cells joined together. Probably the oldest recognizable organisms on Earth - traceable back to the earliest fossils, over 3 billion years old DJ Patterson, L. Amaral-Zettler and V. Edgcomb, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

There are 20,000 different types of organisms in one liter of seawater With more than 20,000 different types of organisms in one liter of seawater, the numbers of microbes in marine environments is staggering and they have a dominating role in ocean processes. To complete a census of marine life, the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICOMM) was established to develop a highly resolved biodiversity database for marine microbes and to understand how microbial populations - the oldest life on the planet - evolve, interact, and redistribute on a global scale.

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Project	ICoMM
Theme *1	Ocean Realms
Location	-85.605469, -44.087585
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Submitted by	Frank Baker (fbaker@gso.uri.edu)
To be approved by	()
Date added	2009/07/15 14:53:23
Date updated	2010/06/09 14:53:53
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