Scientists expect to find in 1 liter of sea water about 2000 different types of bacteria. Imagine their shock when it turned out that the microorganisms there 10 times - more than 20 000!
Extraordinary number of bacteria, using a new technique that quickly identifies various microbes in small fragments of DNA, found the researchers working on the international project "Census of Marine Life". There is a press release about this discovery.
Water samples were collected at eight sites in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at depths from 550 to 4.1 thousand meters. Among these sites were extreme environment, such as abnormally hot or cold.
New technology has allowed the water to detect unusual types of microbes, many of whom were present at all in small quantities and therefore may have been missed in previous studies.
"This work just blows away all previous estimates of bacterial diversity in the ocean. The number of different bacterial species can reach 10 million, instead of the current 5, which indicates that our lack of knowledge and said that we still have much to learn "-
On the "Census of Marine Life" - a 10-year global project, launched in the year 2000, over which employs more than 1700 researchers from over 70 countries - we've certainly been told: one year scientists discovered a new species of 13 000 sea creatures they are equipped with microchips and fish , and learned the ways of their migration, and more - find the unknown science of being
Extraordinary number of bacteria, using a new technique that quickly identifies various microbes in small fragments of DNA, found the researchers working on the international project "Census of Marine Life". There is a press release about this discovery.
Water samples were collected at eight sites in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at depths from 550 to 4.1 thousand meters. Among these sites were extreme environment, such as abnormally hot or cold.
New technology has allowed the water to detect unusual types of microbes, many of whom were present at all in small quantities and therefore may have been missed in previous studies.
"This work just blows away all previous estimates of bacterial diversity in the ocean. The number of different bacterial species can reach 10 million, instead of the current 5, which indicates that our lack of knowledge and said that we still have much to learn "-
On the "Census of Marine Life" - a 10-year global project, launched in the year 2000, over which employs more than 1700 researchers from over 70 countries - we've certainly been told: one year scientists discovered a new species of 13 000 sea creatures they are equipped with microchips and fish , and learned the ways of their migration, and more - find the unknown science of being
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