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French researchers have found a microbe visible to the naked eye that upsets everything we thought we knew about bacteria! Explanations.
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By Chloe Durand-Parenti
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Dhe memory of a microbiologist, Thiomargarita magnifica is the strangest bacterium ever observed! Olivier Gros, teacher-researcher in marine biology at the University of the West Indies – Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB) – crossed his path for the first time in 2009 in a shallow mangrove in Guadeloupe. “I was swimming – or more accurately I was doing the plank to avoid putting too much mud in suspension – in a place where the depth of the water is about an arm’s length, in order to collect samples. The advantage of the mangroves of Guadeloupe is that you have no dangerous animal species lying around: no crocodile, no bulldog shark, no jellyfish that can kill you… This allows you to stay in the…
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