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To learn more about the microbial community's response to the oil spill, a team of researchers tracked a series of microbial species dominating the community in the waters at various time points to remove different fractions of the oil. The team describes using a combination of genomics techniques to study the way the microbes responsed. Isolating single cells to identify the predominant microbial members in the deep ocean oil plume, they were able to assemble a draft genome of what they say is the first deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a single cell. [Source: EurekaAlert!]
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