“When one of these blooms occurs and you get a billion cells per litre, it represents milligrams of carbon per litre, which is much higher than you typically see in coastal ecosystems.”The complete genome sequence will let scientists examine its “parts list” for clues to Aureococcus‘ ability to capture CO2, survive in varying marine environments, exploit selenium in its proteins, and outgrow many of its competitors.
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