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July | 2013 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Archive for July 2013. I’m lichen that! Leave a comment ». A new study reportsthat lichens make a class of antibiotic called pederins only previously seen in bacterial symbionts of. For me at least, this will be easier than sampling the marine environment, because we don’t have any submarines where I work. Kapma et al (2013). Metagenomic natural product discovery in lichen provides evidence for a family of biosynthetic pathways in diverse symbionts...
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September | 2012 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Archive for September 2012. Dictyostelium discoideum: more than meets the eye. It’s tempting to think of amoebae as the single, fried-egg-shaped animal cells we learned about in biology at school and when there’s plenty of food around, that’s pretty much right. But what happens when the food runs out? Things get a little weird. Read the rest of this entry ». 26/09/2012 at 10:00 am. Posted in Ecology and Environment. A window into the past. In Korea, where...
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October | 2012 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Archive for October 2012. Leave a comment ». Imaging technologies have come a long way since the invention of the microscope 400 or so years ago. Now we can look at the circulatory system in a developing chicken embryo. Or the hair cells on a terrapin’s inner ear. But there’s one very familiar place that remains a mystery: the inside of a plant pot. Something we’ve written about before. And many pathogens, such as fungi of the genus Phytophthora. I read a...
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Royal Society summer exhibition 2014 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Royal Society summer exhibition 2014. Leave a comment ». Exhibition is open to school groups 11am – 5pm. Followed by public evening event 6pm – 10pm). Exhibition is open to the public 10am – 9pm. Exhibition is open to the public 10am – 5pm. Followed by VIP soirée). Exhibition is open to the public 10am – 5pm. Followed by VIP soirée). Exhibition is open to the public 10am – 8pm. Exhibition is open to the public 10am – 6pm. 28/01/2014 at 2:38 pm. Get every ...
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Breast really is best | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Breast really is best. Leave a comment ». Microbiomes are the beneficial microbial communities associated with plants and animals. We all have them and they influence everything about their host from development and fitness to reproduction. Needless to say, microbes are a huge driving force in the evolution of higher organisms. Provides the first direct evidence for this ‘mother-neonate direct transfer’ model. The authors used culture dependent and indepe...
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January | 2013 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Archive for January 2013. The sting in the tail of antibiotic use. Leave a comment ». Recently, I found a paper published in mBIO. That describes how antibiotic use in farming is involved in the spread of resistance genes. In this case the work focuses on the humble honeybee ( Apis mellifera. This might seem like a strange place to look, but it actually has its advantages. Unlike the supremely complex ecosystem of the human gut microbiome. Sometimes you f...
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February | 2013 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Archive for February 2013. Animals in a bacterial world. Leave a comment ». This isn’t a research blog as such, just an attempt to get everyone to read a new perspective article entitled “Animals in a bacterial world”. Here at microbelog we’ve been banging on about how important symbioses between bacteria and eukaryotes are for a quite a while now. So imagine our excitement to read this article. Image credit: Picture of a captive leaf-cutter ant colony.
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April | 2013 | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. Archive for April 2013. Clues to the evolution of disease? Leave a comment ». What are a group of genes that help. Infect mammalian cells doing in a harmless soil bacterium? Dr Paul Hoskisson explains his recent research, which is helping us understand the evolutionary roots of disease. We noticed that the soil bacterium. Has a cluster of genes that are very similar to pathogenicity genes present in. The causative agent of tuberculosis. Other work. To col...
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. The sting in the tail of antibiotic use. Leave a comment ». Recently, I found a paper published in mBIO. That describes how antibiotic use in farming is involved in the spread of resistance genes. In this case the work focuses on the humble honeybee ( Apis mellifera. This might seem like a strange place to look, but it actually has its advantages. Unlike the supremely complex ecosystem of the human gut microbiome. Read the rest of this entry ». Sometimes ...
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No barrier to cell division | microbelog
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Blogging the latest developments in microbiology. No barrier to cell division. Despite this, it has been known for a long time that some bacteria can exist as L forms which have lost their cell wall. Even more amazing, these L-form bacteria don’t need FtsZ to divide and instead they just bud off membrane vesicles, some of which contain DNA and enough proteins to form a new cell. Image credit: The Red Lexicon on Wikimedia Commons. Posted by Matt Hutchings. 25/04/2013 at 2:54 pm. Does Jeff Errington have a...
