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How Cyanobacteria Crocosphaera watsonii recycles iron.

How Cyanobacteria Crocosphaera watsonii recycles iron.
How Cyanobacteria Crocosphaera watsonii recycles iron.
How Cyanobacteria Crocosphaera watsonii recycles iron.
How Cyanobacteria Crocosphaera watsonii recycles iron.
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Cook, John E.
How Cyanobacteria Crocosphaera watsonii recycles iron.
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05/23/2012
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 49, no. 2, pages 12 & 13:
Got iron? It's an essential nutrient for living things, but it's scarce in the ocean. Scientists have found that a key marine bacterium may have evolved a remarkable biochemical way to recycle it and reduce its iron requirements by half.
Illustration by Jack Cook
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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