Rare, not rare, rare, not rare (and this is not about burgers, it's about ocean bacteria)

Nice little press release/story for bacteria and ecology lovers out there: 'Rare' bacteria in the ocean ain't necessarily so, researchers report. This is about work by some colleague of mine including in particular Barbara Campbell at the University of Delaware. I worked with her on a genome project a few years ago (of a bacteria found on the surfaces of some deep sea worms - see Adaptations to submarine hydrothermal environments exemplified ....). Alas, the new paper, in PNAS is not Open Access but the story covers it reasonably well.

Some relevant links:

• Study reported in the July 18 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• U Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
• People | Barbara J. Campbell