Microbe Magazine

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Microbial Risk Assessment Scenarios, Causality, and Uncertainty
Difficulties establishing causality in biological systems are abundant— and they affect efforts to assess risks of importance in microbiology, such as likelihoods of infectious disease or development of antibiotic resistance. Consider the case in which von Pettenkofer openly challenged Robert Koc...
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Lingering Puzzles about Myxobacteria
The myxobacteria are social and capable of constructing intricate macroscopic structures called fruiting bodies. First recognized as bacteria in 1892 by the cryptogamic botanist Roland Thaxter, these exotic anomalies have proved challenging to microbiologists. Even so, we now know a great deal ab...
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Bacterial Microcompartments
Although the carboxysome was for nearly 30 years the only microcompartment recognized within microbial cells, additional microcompartments, including some that are involved in metabolic processes such as degrading carbon sources, are known. Cluster analysis of homologues of microbial microcompart...
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