Wednesday, 16 January 2013

MBL scientists find 'bipolar' marine bacteria, refuting 'everything is everywhere' idea

Cape Cod MA (SPX) Jan 16, 2013



In another blow to the "Everything is Everywhere" tenet of bacterial distribution in the ocean, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have found "bipolar" species of bacteria that occur in the Arctic and Antarctic, but nowhere else.

And, surprisingly, they found even fewer bipolar species than would turn up by chance if marine bacteria were randomly distributed everywhere. "