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With discovery of #roundworms, Great Salt Lake's imperiled ecosystem gets more interesting
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-discovery-roundworms-great-salt-lake.htmlNewly identified #nematodes from the #GreatSaltLake are associated with #microbialites and specially adapted to #hypersaline conditions: Julie Jung et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2653
"they discovered thousands of tiny #worms in the lake's microbialites, those reef-like structures that cover about a fifth of the lakebed."