Tag: as in other deserts

“#Water bacteria have a green thumb” Scanning electron microscope image of Stieleria maiorica. Cells in pink. Matrix in blue. Credit: Manfred Rohde/HZI Braunschweig The sheer endless expanses of the oceans are hostile deserts—at least from the perspective of a bacterium living in water. Tiny as it is, its chances of finding sufficient nutrients in the…