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Marine bacteria team up to produce a vital vitamin - EurekAlert


Two species of marine bacteria from the North Sea have established an unusual and sometimes destructive relationship to produce the important vitamin B<sub>12</sub>. This is reported by researchers from Oldenburg, Germany, and San Diego, US, in the journal Nature. The team&#39;s experiments show that the two microbial species have developed a coordinated strategy to obtain the scarce but essential vitamin.

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