Credit: Suffolk County Department of Health Services
Aerial image of Great South Bay, NY, USA, during a harmful brown tide bloom caused by Aureococcus anophagefferens in June 2008. The image contrasts the dark bloom water with billions of A. anophagefferens cells per liter with the neighboring blue ocean water. The genome of A. anophagefferens is ideally suited to exploit the prevailing environmental conditions in estuaries such as Great South Bay.