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UNEXPECTED NUTRIENT FOUND KEY TO OCEAN FUNCTION
March 12, 2008
CORVALLIS, Ore., March 12 -- Oregon State University issued the following news release:

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered what could be a new, limiting nutrient in the world's oceans.

In a publication today in the journal Nature, they report that chemically "reduced" sulfur is a nutrient requirement for SAR11, the smallest free-living cell known and probably the most abundant organism in the seas.

This may be another imp . . .

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