Brown algae (IMAGE)
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The complex sugars in brown algae, such as these pictured during fieldwork in Roscoff by co-author Nicole von Possel, are among the hardest to break down by bacteria in the ocean, which makes them important for carbon storage. Marine relatives of the gut bacterium Akkermansia turn out to be specialists in tackling them.
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Nicole Von Possel/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
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