NAMONITOR : MARINE MEALS ON WHEELS full article!
Marine scientists at the National Science Foundation’s Center for Microbial Oceanography have discovered that marine cyanobacteria create tiny “vesicles” of carbon and nutrients that act as a food source for ocean life. This is in addition to themselves being the tiny plant life that forms the very foundations of the oceanic food chain. They are very busy little bees, only they are plants, and not bees.
Vesicles themselves are not news, having been observed in human-related bacteria since the 1960s. However, this study marks the first instance of their observation in ocean life, adding a new wrinkle to scientists’ understanding of these tiny workhorses.
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