Marine ecology:  Microbial microdiversity

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Nature 393, 410-411 (4 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/30839

Jed A. Fuhrman¹ & Lisa Campbell²

The bacterial group Prochlorococcus, discovered only a decade ago, may be the most abundant component of phytoplankton in the sea. These tiny (0.

Jed A. Fuhrman is in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0371, USA.
e-mail: Email: fuhrman@usc.edu
Lisa Campbell is in the Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3146, USA.
e-mail: Email: lcampbell@ocean.tamu.edu