Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory have found bipolar species of bacteria that occur in the Arctic and Antarctic, but nowhere else, further discrediting the Baas-Becking hypothesis of "everything is everywhere" as far as bacterial distribution in the ocean. They also found fewer bipolar species than would turn up if marine bacteria were randomly distributed everywhere, suggesting there are forces in the ocean limiting the dispersal of bacteria. What these barriers may be is under investigation.
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