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Reef-building coral colonies serve as structured habitats for diverse microbiomes, forming a hidden reservoir of taxonomic, genetic and chemical diversity (photo supplied by the author). Shinichi Sunagawa

Lifting the lid on unknown coral microbiomes living in the Pacific ocean

Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, genetic and chemical diversity, previously unknown to Science and Medicine.
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In the dark, freezing ocean under Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, we discovered a thriving microbial jungle

A high-tech expedition to sample the ocean under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf confirms what the earliest explorers thought: everywhere we look we find microbes, scavenging any energy source available.

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