{"id":2749,"date":"2007-09-15T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/09\/15\/17\/58\/let-them-eat-pelagibacter\/"},"modified":"2007-09-15T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:58:42","slug":"let-them-eat-pelagibacter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/09\/15\/17\/58\/let-them-eat-pelagibacter\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Pelagibacter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are running out of fish to eat, so apparently we will have to begin harvesting other oceanic biomass sources. I suggest going right to the source and figuring out how to turn <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pelagibacter_ubique\" target=\"_blank\">Pelagibacter ubique<\/a> into chewy burger patties. Should go well with some gorgonzola topping. Anyway, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/309\/5738\/1242\">awesomely efficient creature<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=pubmed&amp;dopt=AbstractPlus&amp;list_uids=12490947\" target=\"_blank\">most abundant organism on the planet<\/a> and probably constitutes more biomass than all the oceanic eukaryotes combined.  Its impressively stripped-down genetic sequence means that a minimum of nitrogen is required to facilitate its growth, thus reducing the need for fertiliser inputs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are running out of fish to eat, so apparently we will have to begin harvesting other oceanic biomass sources. I suggest going right to the source and figuring out how to turn Pelagibacter&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacteria","category-food","category-microbiology","category-ocean"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}