Yucatán's underwater caves host diverse microbial communities

With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Researchers found the cave system’s microbiome is distinct from the nearby sea, and microbial communities vary between cave systems forming distinct ‘neighborhoods.’  


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Source: ScienceDaily