England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (bbc.co.uk)
#NoHep #gastrosky #microsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Giant viruses encode vitamin K–based redox modules for lipid modification | PNAS (pnas.org)
Giant viruses encode vitamin K–based redox modules for lipid modification #virus #viruses #vitamins #MicroSky @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Invasive plasmids as ecosystem engineers—from mechanism to application (portlandpress.com)
Invasive plasmids as ecosystem engineers: how can we understand & harness conjugative plasmids as agents of microbiome functionality? Thanks Solomon Garland, @vickiorr.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social @ellieevolves.bsky.social for this review #MicroSky portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
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In Memoriam: Schweizer, Herbert Paul (asm.org)
Dr. Schweizer’s papers on P. aeruginosa genetic tools are probably among the ones that I have cited the most in my papers. Sad to hear that he passed away. #microsky asm.org/obituaries/i...
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Imaging nucleic acids in biofilms (portlandpress.com)
It’s not just B-DNA in #biofilm matrices - imaging approaches reveal diverse non-canonical DNA structures, and extracellular RNAs too. Thanks Gabriel Minero, Freja Sillesen & Rikke Meyer for contributing this review to Essays in Biochemistry #MicroSky portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
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It takes a village: how plant-associated bacterial communities socialise to shape plant growth and health (portlandpress.com)
How do social interactions in plant microbiomes shape host health? What would a rationally-designed growth-promoting consortium look like? Thanks @carmen-escudero.bsky.social, Andrzej Tkacz, Marta Albareda & Carmen Sánchez-Cañizares for this review #MicroSky portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
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Widespread horizontal transfer and strong selection enhance microbial adaptation in Antarctic soils - Nature Communications (nature.com)
Widespread horizontal transfer and strong selection enhance microbial adaptation in Antarctic soils #microbiology #soil #Antarctic #MicroSky @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Frontiers | Metagenomic insights into microbial communities of terrestrial mud volcanos: functional diversity of subsurface archaea and bacteria (doi.org)
Metagenomic insights into microbial communities of terrestrial mud volcanos: functional diversity of subsurface archaea and bacteria #microbiology #metagenomics #MicrobialEcology #MicroSky @frontiersin.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fmic...
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From sequence space to ecological function: microbiome-derived antimicrobial peptides as community effectors and therapeutic leads (portlandpress.com)
What do microbes actually use antimicrobial peptides for? How do they impact microbial communities? Thanks @lindaoyama.bsky.social for contributing this review to a special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on the social lives of bacteria #MicroSky portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
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How the social lives of bacteria affect their pangenome (portlandpress.com)
How the social lives of bacteria affect their pangenome: thank you @whelanfj.bsky.social for reviewing how community ecology affects pangenomes, and for a special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on the social lives of bacteria #MicroSky portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...
Nanopore sequencing reveals coordinated host and microbiome responses across barley genotypes - BMC Biology (link.springer.com)
This study indicates that domestication has shaped coordinated associations between barley genotypes and their rhizosphere microbiomes, reflected in both microbial community composition and host transcriptional regulation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...