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Little is known about effects of global warming on marine prokaryotes, which are, by far, the largest living biomass in world oceans. Here, scientists report, for the first time that a warming trend in sea surface temperature is strongly associated with spread of vibrios, an important group of marine prokaryotes, and emergence of human diseases caused by these pathogens. The results are based on formalin-preserved plankton samples collected in the past half-century from the temperate North Atlantic. [Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]
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