Microbes are eating DNA on the ocean floor Kenneth Wasmund
For a few species of microbe, DNA is more than a library of genetic information: it鈥檚 also lunch. Some聽bacteria聽that live in the mud below the seafloor聽appear to survive by eating DNA trapped in the dirt.
鈥淭his is one of the yummiest things to eat down there,鈥 says Gustavo Ram铆rez at the University of Southern California. 鈥淚t鈥檚 got the major macronutrients that you get in your lawn fertiliser 鈥 carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.鈥
Biologists have already established that 鈥 molecules…
