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Dispersal and the Microbiome
“Everything is everywhere—the environment selects,” said the late Dutch microbiologist and botanist Lourens Bass-Becking. Subsequently, other scientists interpreted his comments to mean that microorganisms, particularly free-living ones, are not dispersal limited. Small, abundant organisms are mo...
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Microbes that Meddle with Metals
Metals present a double-edged sword to microorganisms—they are essential micronutrients at low concentrations, but toxic above specific thresholds. Microorganisms depend on numerous metal cofactors to carry out diverse metabolisms, with those requirements in turn depending on the microbial specie...
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Taking a Scientific Approach to Science Education, Part II—Changing Teaching
In Part I of “Taking a Scientific Approach to Science Education” (Microbe, April 2015, p. 152) we focused on the research on learning and teaching in undergraduate science. Our focus here is to address why these improved teaching methods are not the norm in college and university science c...
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