Iron-oxidizing bacteria Leptothrix ochracea, Gallionella, and Zetaproteobacteri
If you were driving along a highway in Maine - located on the east coast of the United States - past pine trees and summer cottages, you might not give a ditch of rust-colored water a second thought, unless you had the bad luck to drive into it. In this weeks podcast, Ari Daniel meets some scientists who are wading into the rusty water and finding a whole ecosystem of unusual life forms. Listen to the podcast: http://education.eol.org/podcast/iron-oxidizing-bacteria Subscribe to all of the One Species at a Time Podcasts on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/one-species-at-a-time/id386954489