Microbes, by latitudes and altitudes, shed new light on life's diversity

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Jessica Green right works with Lise Ovreas a scientist with the University of Bergen (Norway) Center for Geobiology to obtain microbes at Svalbard an island in a Norway-controlled archipelago about 300 miles south of the North Pole. Photo by Steve Co ...
Jessica Green, right, works with Lise Ovreas, a scientist with the University of Bergen (Norway) Center for Geobiology, to obtain microbes at Svalbard, an island in a Norway-controlled archipelago about 300 miles south of the North Pole. Photo by Steve Coulson
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Microbial biologists, including the University of Oregon's Jessica L. Green, may not have Jimmy Buffett's music from 1977 in mind, but they are changing attitudes about evolutionary diversity on Earth, from oceanic latitudes to mountainous altitudes.


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