For some reason your posts always seem to get me searching through mad PDF files
, especially when I should be studying for my finals.
I found a paper detailing Cyanobacterial aggregates in the Adriatic Sea that might reveal some answers for you. Unfortunately you can only view it through the academic MRU search. Here's the citation, if you can't access it through the fancy UoC PhD resources you covet shoot me a PM and I will give you my log in information.
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PUŠKARIĆ S. Ecology of gel-like marine snow event in the northern Adriatic Sea. Acta Adriatica [serial online]. December 15, 2012;53(3):375-387. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed April 13, 2013.
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Here's a couple exerts from it, possibly identifying what those additional microbes are in addition to information about its growth.
I think you might be onto something here Adam, keep up the good work!