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Published online 2 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020429-8
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New bug found on bug
Marine microbe sets miniaturization records.
Researchers have found a strange and tiny new group of microbes living on another microbe at the bottom of the sea.
The organisms are about 400 billionths of a metre across - more than six million would fit on the head of a pin.
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