Bacterial culture (IMAGE)

University of Oldenburg

Bacterial culture

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Microscopic image of a co-culture of the two strains of bacteria. The blue colouring shows bacteria, the red dots are viruses. They cause some bacterial cells to break up, releasing the vitamin into the water.

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Wienhausen et al., Nature

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