Microbes recently found in whale breath are new to science Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Waves submerge the algae, forcing us to hop onto higher ground to avoid getting wet feet.聽For the next few months, the聽rocky beach outcrop I am on in聽the Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Sydney, will be a lab for Kim聽Lema at the University of New聽South Wales, Australia.
She is studying a type of algae聽whose chemicals attract certain microbes, forming a microscopic community on its surface that plays an important role in its health.
To identify these microbes, Lema is getting their DNA…
