Researchers capture key ocean predator

The Globe and Mail highlighted UBC research that found the broad class of single-celled microbes known as diplonemids are unexpectedly abundant in the world’s oceans.

“They’re not the kind of things that jump out at you,” said Patrick Keeling, a UBC evolutionary microbiologist whose team captured the elusive organisms. “In the microbial world, we’re still very much in this Victorian naturalist phase in which we really don’t know what’s out there.”

A similar story appeared on Gizmodo.