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Comb Jelly Credit: William E. Browne | Equipment: Canon 100mm Macro — Credit: William E. Browne | Equipment: Canon 100mm Macro

Rachel Carson and Bob Hines, a biologist and illustrator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, conduct research in Florida in 1952. Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Inbred sea squirt larvae (with two copies of flourescent protein genes instead of *Mesp) attached to petri dishes following their free-swimming larval stage. Credit: Lionel Christiaen*

California two-spot octopus. Credit: Yen Chyi Liu

Sea Squirt (Ciona) embryo. Credit: Laurence Lemaire | Equipment: • Equipment: custom build 2-photon microscope with Hamamatsu detector

Xenopus tropicalis. Credit: James Parente | Equipment: iPhone

Nexus between phylogeny and function of the newly discovered nitrogen fixers in surface ocean metagenomes. (a) Phylogenomic analysis of 432 Proteobacteria genomes and 43 Planctomycetes genomes that Delmont and colleagues characterized (including the nine non-photosynthetic N fixers) using a collection of 37 phylogenetic marker gene families. Layers surrounding the phylogenomic tree indicate genome size and taxonomy of each genome at the phylum and class level. (b) Functional network of the nine non-photosynthetic N fixers based on a total of 5,912 identified gene functions. Size and color of genomic nodes represent the number of detected functions and genomic taxonomy, respectively. The color of functional nodes indicates their occurrence in the different genomes. Credit: Delmont et al (2018) Nature Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0176-9

Loretta Roberson, TA Emily DeFelippis, SES students Grant McKnight, Olivia Shao, Lauren Johnson, Kyra Madunich and Miriam Ritchie. Credit: Loretta Roberson