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MARINE BIOLOGY: Microbe May Push Photosynthesis Into Deep Water
John Bohannon
The announcement this week of a bacterium that appears to derive energy from light despite living in the inky depths of an ocean threatens to overthrow the dogma that photosynthesis depends on the sun.