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Researchers in the Chisholm lab find Prochlorococcus can switch between drifting alone and living in attached communities, a discovery that could reshape estimates of how much carbon the ocean moves to the deep sea. news.mit.edu/2026/oceans-mo…
news.mit.edu The ocean’s most abundant “loner” microbe has a sticky second life MIT researchers found that the phytoplankton Prochlorococcus can switch between drifting alone and living in sticky biofilms on particles, which affects how much carbon the microbes move to the deep...