Microbe Magazine

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Microbial Syntrophy: Ecosystem-Level Biochemical Cooperation
Syntrophy, tightly coupled mutualistic interactions between microorganisms, proves essential for global carbon cycling in anaerobic environments. The term syntrophy was first used to describe the exchange of sulfur compounds between phototrophic, green-sulfur bacteria and chemotrophic, sulfur-red...
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Research Resources Help To Drive Innovation in Microbiology
Microorganisms, harnessed for thousands of years, contribute to brewing and fermentations, health care, environmental remediation, and industrial products, and thus are a key component of the global economy. Microbial collections of many sorts serve to store and supply samples for reference, prod...
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A New Age of Naturalists
Charles Darwin and other naturalists of his time plied the globe by boat and machete to survey the diversity of plants, animals, and insects, and their distributions around the world. They combined these surveys with their contemporary understanding about the history of the Earth to develop an ev...
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