Hidden Genetic Diversity Floating on Top of the Sea (4 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Hidden Genetic Diversity Floating on Top of the Sea (4 of 5)

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This is an artist's rendering of the diversity of Prochlorococcus in a drop of seawater. This image relates to a paper that appeared in Apr. 25, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nadav Kashtan at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Hundreds of Coexisting Subpopulations in Wild Prochlorococcus."

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Carly Sanker/ MIT)

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