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Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change

Vitamin B12 deficiency in people can cause a slew of health problems and even become fatal. Until now, the same deficiencies were thought to impact certain types of algae, as well. A new study led by former MIT CBIOMES postdoc Deepa Rao examined the algae Phaeocystis antarctica’s (P. antarctica) exposure to a matrix of iron and vitamin B12 conditions. Results show that this algae can survive without B12, something that computer analysis of genome sequences had incorrectly indicated. Continue reading Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change

Dustin Carroll, Dimitris Menemenlis, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Jonathan M. Lauderdale, Jess F. Adkins, Kevin W. Bowman, Holger Brix, Ian Fenty, Michelle M. Gierach, Chris Hill, Oliver Jahn, Peter Landschtzer, Manfredi Manizza, Matt R. Mazloff, Charles E. Miller, David S. Schimel, Ariane Verdy, Daniel B. Whitt, Hong Zhang (2022), Attribution of space-time variability in global-ocean dissolved inorganic carbonGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles, doi: 10.1029/2021GB007162
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