Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes

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Source: David S. Johnson & Marine Biological Laboratory

Scientists have discovered that even among the sulfur-cycling microbes that are responsible for the “rotten egg gas” smell in salt marsh air, diversity extends all the way to genomes and even to individual nucleotides.

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