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Paper Out: Kin discrimination promotes horizontal gene transfer between unrelated strains in Bacillus subtilis
Although this blog has entered a period of dormancy (and I have moved to twitter), I willkeep adding brief posts about new papers. This was a study led by Polonca Stefanic and Ines Mandic-Mulec at the University of Ljubljana that … Continue reading
Breaking (ahem): I have f i n a l l y joined twitter. Although some of my misgivings about this medium were rapidly confirmed, I hope it will be a useful tool to keep abreast of new findings and also … Continue reading
Paper Out: Does Diversity Beget Diversity in Microbiomes?
A collaboration I was lucky to be involved in led by Jesse Shapiro and PhD student Naima Madi (University of Montreal, although Jesse has now moved across the road to McGill) and with Carmen Lia Murall and Pierre Legendre has … Continue reading
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Tagged 16S, Carmen Lia Murall, collaboration, Earth Microbiome Project, ecology, eLife, evolution, Jesse Shapiro, microbiomes, Naima Madi, Pierre Legendre
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Paper Out: The evolution of bacterial pathogens in the Anthropocene
A review paper I wrote just came out in Infection Genetics and Evolution. Inspired by my undergraduate teaching on environment and human health, and an interesting FEMS symposium last year, I chose to explore the relationship between environmental degradation and … Continue reading
Sexual Selection in Bacteria?
The paper “Sexual selection in Bacteria?” with Angus Buckling and Bram Kuijper has now been published in Trends in Microbiology. This was a tough, but ultimately very rewarding paper to write. I knew a bit about sexual selection, but must … Continue reading
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Tagged Angus Buckling, bacteria, Bram Kuijpers, Michiel Vos, sexual selection, Trends in Microbiology
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Paper Out: Triclosan Alters Microbial Communities in Freshwater Microcosms
I wrote four (!) years back on the blog about my visit to collaborator Gabriel Perron at Bard College. From this visit stems a paper that was just published in the journal Water on the effects of the antimicrobial triclosan … Continue reading