Sunday evening the intelligent and lovely Sheril Kirshenbaum posited a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because…
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Evolutionary Escalation In Squids and Whales
How do you find squid in the dark depths if you are a toothed whale or dolphin? Lindberg an expert on molluscs and Pyenson an…
View More Evolutionary Escalation In Squids and WhalesImportant tools of microbiology: Garbage bags by Christina Kellogg
CK in garbage bag darkroom, credit Stéphane HourdezThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy advises that it is always useful to have your own towel. Sea-going…
View More Important tools of microbiology: Garbage bags by Christina KelloggFriday Deep-Sea Picture (9/14/06)
Radiolaria are marine protists that are most abundant in tropical waters. The remains of their beautiful houses can be found on the bottom of the…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (9/14/06)Do the Bacteria Dance!
Bacteria…bacteria…bacteria…
View More Do the Bacteria Dance!Hottie Alert! by Christina Kellogg
Move over Angelina Jolie-according to University of Delaware marine biologists, the Pompeii worm is “Earth’s Hottest Animal.” And how could it not be…an invertebrate with…
View More Hottie Alert! by Christina KelloggCold-water Coral Disease By Jason Hall-Spencer & Colin Munn*
A garden of healthy, orange-coloured Eunicella verrucosa (sea fans) providing habitat for fish off Plymouth in the UK. Photographer: Sally Sharrock It’s great that you’re…
View More Cold-water Coral Disease By Jason Hall-Spencer & Colin Munn*Microbe Power by Christina Kellogg
One of the challenges of doing research in the deep-sea is the expense of getting down there and staying down there long enough (i.e., needing…
View More Microbe Power by Christina KelloggDoing it in the dark by Christina Kellogg
Photosynthesis, that is. Get your mind out of the gutter! This admittedly sexy anaerobic green sulfur bacterium is capable of photosynthetic growth in the dark…
View More Doing it in the dark by Christina KelloggMicrobial Metagenomic Studies of Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities by Kurt Williamson
Diffuse flow vent with microbial mat (white) Metagenomics is a powerful set of research tools, as well as a field of study in its own…
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