1.   Both bugs are microscopic animals.

2.   Burkholder has discovered that the microscopic animal has an arsenal of disguises and life styles that make it extremely difficult to track through its watery environment.

3.   Instead, asexual and single-sex reproduction is relegated to various species of plants, fish, insects, worms, crustaceans and microscopic animals.

4.   Microscopic animals gobbled the plankton as fast as it grew, and the explosive plant growth slowed as much of the iron particles sank.

5.   Scientists have found several microscopic animals that consume brown tide, and are working to see if they could be applied to the Laguna Madre.

6.   The difference is believed to result from the accumulation of millions of dead microscopic marine animals called plankton.

7.   The pollock population grew, according to one hypothesis, when whalers reduced the populations of whales that survive by filtering microscopic animals from the water.