Every grain of sand is a met­ro­polis for bac­teria

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Every grain of sand is a met­ro­polis for bac­teria
12/15/2017 01:00:00 PM Email

It has long been known that sand is a densely populated and active habitat. Now David Probandt and his colleagues have described the microbial community on a single grain of sand using modern molecular methods. To do this, they used samples taken from the southern North Sea, near the island of Helgoland, off the German coast.

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