Mercury accumulates in the lake, is ingested by tiny organisms and eventually makes its way up the food chain.
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The cause is a tiny organism called Phytophthora ramorum, which is related to other Phytophthora species that have caused agricultural plagues.
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Euglyphids are common in soils, marshes, and other organic-rich environments, feeding on tiny organisms such as bacteria.
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Dr . Michael Levandowsky, a Pace University microbiologist, said his research supported the finding that tiny organisms were dining on the hydrocarbons.
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They argue that this will protect many relatively common species that might otherwise become endangered, including many tiny organisms that are now unknown.
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It creates more algae blooms and other tiny organisms than gulf creatures can gobble, said Rabalais, of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
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Tiny organisms were then extracted from the partially decomposed litter, collected in bar-coded vials and mailed to Dangerfield's laboratory in Australia.
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In addition, the company is using its knowledge of how these tiny organisms work to help other firms that use fungus cells to manufacture drugs.
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He looks at how storms change the chemical makeup of a lake and how they affect the growth of various living things, mostly tiny organisms.
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Keena is also studying how nematodes, tiny organisms commonly used to attack lawn grubs, can be sent after the Asian long-horned beetles.
