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International Census of Marine Microbes

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The International Census of Marine Microbes is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that inventories microbial diversity by cataloging all known diversity of single-cell organisms, explore and discover unknown biodiversity of microbes, and place the current and future knowledge about microbes into the appropriate ecological and evolutionary contexts.


Mitchell L. Sogin of the US, Jan de Leew of the Netherlands, and Linda Amaral Zettler of the US manage the program.