Imagine that some life forms in other planets resemble Bacteria or Archaea. Would you guess that they are most like the Gram positives, the Gram negatives or the Archaea?
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contributed by Pok Man Leung The natural habitats of chemolithotrophs such as Leptospirillum and Pyrolobus contain organic compounds. Yet, when grown in the lab, these microbes...
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As a model organism, E. coli played (and continues to play) a key role in molecular biology. Yet, its role in the gut does not appear to be so critical.
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In their classical experiments, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty showed that streptococci in a specific growth phase take up exogenous DNA, resulting in a transformation of their phenotype...
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The purpose of this blog is to share our appreciation for the width and depth of the microbial activities on this planet. We will emphasize the unusual and the unexpected phenomena for which we have a special fascination... (more)