‘Hot-bunking’ bacterium recycles iron to boost ocean metabolism

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In the vast ocean where an essential nutrient -- iron -- is scarce, a marine bacterium that launches the ocean food web survives by using a remarkable biochemical trick: it recycles iron....
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