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Luca Zoccarato

joined in Jan 28, 2022

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany.

Zoccarato has 1 break published.

When it comes to the giant bacterium Achromatium, everything is everywhere

Bacteria of the genus Achromatium are known since the 1890s. They occupy the uppermost layer of aquatic sediments at the boundary between the oxic water and the anoxic benthos where Achromatium uses sulfide for energy. Achromatium is recognizable by two distinctive features: (1) it is... click to read more

Danny Ionescu | Research Scientist at 1Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Alte Fischerhütte 2, D-16775 Stechlin, Germany

Luca Zoccarato | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany

Sina Schorn | PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

polyploid bacteria

giant bacteria

heterozygous bacteria

function accumulation

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published on Jan 28, 2022