{"id":209968,"date":"2025-03-28T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/after-7000-years-without-light-and-oxygen-in-baltic-sea-mud-researchers-bring-prehistoric-algae-back-to-life"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:10:31","slug":"after-7000-years-without-light-and-oxygen-in-baltic-sea-mud-researchers-bring-prehistoric-algae-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/after-7000-years-without-light-and-oxygen-in-baltic-sea-mud-researchers-bring-prehistoric-algae-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in Baltic Sea mud, researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-7000-years-without-light-and-oxygen-in-baltic-sea-mud-researchers-bring-prehistoric-algae-back-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnem\u00fcnde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea almost 7,000 years ago. Despite thousands of years of inactivity in the sediment without light and oxygen, the investigated diatom species regained full viability.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ismej\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/ismejo\/wrae252\/7942337\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>The ISME Journal<\/i>, was carried out as part of a collaborative research project PHYTOARK, which aims at a better understanding of the Baltic Sea\u2019s future by means of paleoecological investigations of the Baltic Sea\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>Many organisms, from bacteria to mammals, can go into a kind of \u201csleep mode,\u201d known as dormancy, in order to survive periods of unfavorable environmental conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnem\u00fcnde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea almost 7,000 years ago. Despite thousands of years of inactivity in the sediment without light and oxygen, the investigated diatom species regained full viability. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209968","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}