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Growth in the sea comes down to a struggle for iron

...m molecules that they didn't produce. So, they can pirate that iron. It's beginning to look like the same thing may be happening in the ocean," Wells explains. In July, by the time Wells and his colleagues arrived at their appointed location in the northwestern Pacific, the Japanese team had already injecte...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...ed places on this planet ?a region where legal and pirate fishers rub shoulders in the pursuit of big fish and even bigger profits," says Callum Roberts of the University of York in the United Kingdom. "Conservationists are fighting to place some areas off limits to fishing. This study provides welcome advi...

Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

...g protect the endangered Patagonian toothfish from pirate fishing vessels. Perched between Africa, India, A...r this region has proved increasingly popular with pirate vessels intent on defying the law. Réunion is the second largest producer of Patagonian toothfish ...

Viral hitchhiker inhibits Wolbachia bacteria's ability to proliferate

...rus was somehow inducing this process. But viruses pirate cells to reproduce, often killing the cells as a result. So Bordenstein and his colleagues hypothesized that by preying on Wolbachia cells, the WO-B virus might reduce the incidence of cytoplasmic incompatibility in a host, not promote it. Using D...

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