Credit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
FAU Harbor Branch scientists have collected marine sponges from environmentally and geographically diverse locations. Many of them can be considered to be rare actinobacteria.
Credit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
The Harbor Branch Marine Microbial Collection is home to about 19,000 diverse micro-organisms, with 11,000 gathered from ocean depths greater than 45 meters.