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Category Archives: microbiology
Introducing The Molecular Ecologist Podcast
The Molecular Ecologist is trying out a new medium for the first time since we launched: audio! That’s right, TME contributors, talking about the science we’ve been reading and writing about, recorded for easy listening on any internet-capable device. As … Continue reading
Posted in community, housekeeping, microbiology, modest proposals, natural history, Science Communication, Science History, TME Podcast
Tagged Crow, ibex, Whales
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Of microbes and whales
At the end of January, the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) journal put out a list: “Readers’ Choice: The best of The ISME Journal 2019” . I don’t know about you (my fellow scientists also with 35+ chrome tabs … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, community ecology, ecology, mammals, microbiology
Tagged bowhead, lipidome, microbial communities, wax esters
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Microbial mutualists parted ways with this host plant — multiple times
Posted in evolution, microbiology, phylogenetics, plants
Tagged Bradyrhizobium, legume-rhizobium symbiosis, mutualism
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The (silent) thunder down under: mud volcanoes and the microbes that love them
One of the most recognized and distributed photographs ever is of the earth taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft 28,000 miles above where you’re reading this, and was named “The Blue Marble“. As the photo implies, our … Continue reading
Posted in community, community ecology, ecology, microbiology
Tagged deep sea, greenhouse gas, methane, mud volcanoes
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Conference catch-up: The many colors of snow
Red snow … watermelon snow … green snow … did you know that snow came in so many different colors? I had never heard of watermelon ice (#🍉❄) until a talk given by Robin Kodner from Western Washington University at … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, bioinformatics, citizen science, community ecology, evolution, fieldwork, mating system, microbiology, natural history, phylogenetics, phylogeography, population genetics, selection, speciation, transcriptomics
Tagged biogeochemistry, Chlamydomonas nivalis, clonality, conference, ecology, Evolution, genetics, genomics, geoecology, life cycles, Snow algae, species, workshop
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In it to win it: Selective Advantage through Host-Selected Mutations
Julian Jackson wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Julian is a MS student and investigates symbiotic relationships in microbial communities in Dr. Jeff Morris‘ lab. Outside of the … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, genomics, microbiology, Science Communication, selection
Tagged microbiology, scicomm, Science Communication, symbiosis
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