• Question: what is the most abundant bacteria ?

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      Asked by Ghbarreiros to Daniela ?, ☣ Danna, Jonny, Juan on 22 Jun 2016.
      • Photo: Danna Gifford

        Danna Gifford answered on 22 Jun 2016:


        Wow I didn’t know this one, so I looked it up!

        Turns out it’s something called Pelagibacter ubique, which in means in Latin something like “sea bacteria everywhere”–creative, no? It’s a tiny little guy that lives in the sea. For a long time, we only knew about it from its RNA and hadn’t grown it in the lab.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagibacter_ubique

      • Photo: Jonathan Hunter

        Jonathan Hunter answered on 22 Jun 2016:


        I think Danna has answered this as well as I could have!

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