Plankton are a diverse group of marine organisms, which are carried by tides and currents. Most are microscopic, but there ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Many plankton journey from the cold ... In a paper publishing October 17 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, researchers describe a species of bioluminescent phytoplankton, called ...

Microscopic plankton are at the heart of the ocean ... in a study published October 17 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. “What we have discovered in this paper is that these P.

CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that holistically studies the physics, biogeochemistry, and biology of the marine ...

Credit: Larson et al./Current Biology To test what effects this rapid growth might have on the plankton, the research team utilized their novel "gravity machine." "The gravity machine allows us to ...