{"id":206076,"date":"2025-02-10T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/life-on-earth-depends-on-networks-of-ocean-bacteria"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:28:20","slug":"life-on-earth-depends-on-networks-of-ocean-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/life-on-earth-depends-on-networks-of-ocean-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-on-earth-depends-on-networks-of-ocean-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another question is how bacteria form these tubes, and under what conditions. The tubes are not much longer than an individual cell, and <em>Prochlorococcus,<\/em> in particular, is thought to spread out in the water column. Mu\u00f1oz-Mar\u00edn and her team are curious about the concentrations of bacteria required for a network to form. \u201cHow often would it be possible for these independent cells to get close enough to each other in order to develop these nanotubes?\u201d Garc\u00eda-Fernandez asked. The current study shows that nanotubes do form among wild-caught cells, but the precise requirements are unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at what people thought about bacterial communication when he began to study marine cyanobacteria 25 years ago, Garc\u00eda-Fernandez is conscious that the field has undergone a sea change. Scientists once thought they saw myriad individuals floating alongside each other in immense space, competing with neighboring species in a race for resources. \u201cThe fact that there can be physical communication between different kind of organisms\u2014I think that changes many, many previous ideas on how the cells work in the ocean,\u201d he said. It\u2019s a far more interconnected world than anyone realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another question is how bacteria form these tubes, and under what conditions. The tubes are not much longer than an individual cell, and Prochlorococcus, in particular, is thought to spread out in the water column. Mu\u00f1oz-Mar\u00edn and her team are curious about the concentrations of bacteria required for a network to form. \u201cHow often would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}