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Microbial Ecology
Microbial Ecology: (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment. It concerns the three major domains of life-Eukaryota, Archaea, and Bacteria-as well as viruses. Microorganisms, by their omnipresence, impact the entire biosphere.
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SEP 27, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at Clemson University have been investigating how antibiotic resistance can move from humans into animals.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 25, 2019Microbiology
Massachusetts health officials confirmed yesterday that a third person has died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis this ye ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 09, 2019Microbiology
Bacterial communities can be vital partners to many living organisms, from humans beings to the white-throated woodrat.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 05, 2019Microbiology
Antibiotic use would have to be reduced by 80% in order to effectively curtail the spread of antibiotic-resistant microb ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 27, 2019Microbiology
There are some small roundworms, also called nematodes, in the genus Strongyloides that can infect animals. Two species ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 25, 2019Microbiology
Archaea occupy their own branch on the tree of life and exist in some of the most extreme environments on the planet.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 20, 2019Microbiology
People and pet owners, especially in the Southeast but all across the nation are being warned to watch out for harmful a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 09, 2019Genetics & Genomics
While a type of algae appears to be thriving in the face of its downgraded envrionment, the story is turning out to be m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 04, 2019Microbiology
There are organisms that can use the magnetic field of the earth to navigate, including animals like honey bees and migr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 24, 2019Microbiology
In recent years, the fungus Candida auris has emerged as a growing public health threat. The infection is usually seriou ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 22, 2019Microbiology
Cyanidiales are a group of red algae species. Researchers have found that about 10% of them have acquired genes from bac ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 28, 2019Genetics & Genomics
The inch-long sea slug Elysia rufescens eats algae for sustenance, but it gets an added benefit in the form of toxins wi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 07, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have discovered viruses with massive genomes, which contain surprising genes.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 15, 2019Microbiology
Many things can disrupt the microbiome, like antibiotics or host genetics. But there are other influences at work.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 14, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Tiny photosynthetic microbes in the world's oceans are thought to produce nearly half of the oxygen we breathe.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 28, 2019Microbiology
Oil-consuming microbes have been discovered in the deepest part of the oceans of Earth - the Mariana Trench.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 26, 2019Microbiology
After a global survey of the world's oceans, an international team of researchers has found almost 200,000 new species o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 21, 2019Earth & The Environment
Yesterday marked nine years since the Deepwater Horizon crude oil started to leak into the Gulf of Mexico. The leak ende ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 06, 2019Microbiology
The diversity of microbes in a thumbnail-sized mix of volcanic gases, rainwater and snow is greater than the animal and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 01, 2019Microbiology
Microbes appear to be able to move through the air over thousands of miles, without having to use an animal to move them ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 18, 2019Microbiology
Scientists are learning more about how specific strains of bacteria in our guts are connected to various aspects of our ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 28, 2019Microbiology
A growing number of pathogenic microbes are gaining resistance to antibiotics, and the genes that confer that resistance ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 04, 2019Microbiology
Methane is a greenhouse gas considered to be 20-28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 10, 2018Microbiology
Deep within the surface of the earth lies a gargantuan amount of carbon in the form of various types of microbial life.Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 27, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at Clemson University have been investigating how antibiotic resistance can move from humans into animals.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2019
Microbiology
Massachusetts health officials confirmed yesterday that a third person has died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis this ye
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2019
Microbiology
Bacterial communities can be vital partners to many living organisms, from humans beings to the white-throated woodrat.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 05, 2019
Microbiology
Antibiotic use would have to be reduced by 80% in order to effectively curtail the spread of antibiotic-resistant microb
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 27, 2019
Microbiology
There are some small roundworms, also called nematodes, in the genus Strongyloides that can infect animals. Two species
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 25, 2019
Microbiology
Archaea occupy their own branch on the tree of life and exist in some of the most extreme environments on the planet.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 20, 2019
Microbiology
People and pet owners, especially in the Southeast but all across the nation are being warned to watch out for harmful a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 09, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
While a type of algae appears to be thriving in the face of its downgraded envrionment, the story is turning out to be m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 04, 2019
Microbiology
There are organisms that can use the magnetic field of the earth to navigate, including animals like honey bees and migr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 24, 2019
Microbiology
In recent years, the fungus Candida auris has emerged as a growing public health threat. The infection is usually seriou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2019
Microbiology
Cyanidiales are a group of red algae species. Researchers have found that about 10% of them have acquired genes from bac
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
The inch-long sea slug Elysia rufescens eats algae for sustenance, but it gets an added benefit in the form of toxins wi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 07, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have discovered viruses with massive genomes, which contain surprising genes.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 15, 2019
Microbiology
Many things can disrupt the microbiome, like antibiotics or host genetics. But there are other influences at work.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 14, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Tiny photosynthetic microbes in the world's oceans are thought to produce nearly half of the oxygen we breathe.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 28, 2019
Microbiology
Oil-consuming microbes have been discovered in the deepest part of the oceans of Earth - the Mariana Trench.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 26, 2019
Microbiology
After a global survey of the world's oceans, an international team of researchers has found almost 200,000 new species o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 21, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Yesterday marked nine years since the Deepwater Horizon crude oil started to leak into the Gulf of Mexico. The leak ende
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 06, 2019
Microbiology
The diversity of microbes in a thumbnail-sized mix of volcanic gases, rainwater and snow is greater than the animal and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2019
Microbiology
Microbes appear to be able to move through the air over thousands of miles, without having to use an animal to move them
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 18, 2019
Microbiology
Scientists are learning more about how specific strains of bacteria in our guts are connected to various aspects of our
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 28, 2019
Microbiology
A growing number of pathogenic microbes are gaining resistance to antibiotics, and the genes that confer that resistance
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 04, 2019
Microbiology
Methane is a greenhouse gas considered to be 20-28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 10, 2018
Microbiology
Deep within the surface of the earth lies a gargantuan amount of carbon in the form of various types of microbial life.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch