Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Microsyndia (Close encounters in the phycosphere: Microscale syntrophic interactions between diatom and diazotroph populations)

Marine unicellular algae, also named phytoplankton, are key to the world’s oxygen production and are also de basis of the oceans’ ecosystems. These tiny creatures, however, do not exist on their own, but are surrounded instead by bacteria that can influence their activity:...