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Historical Use of Cover Slips for Staining Bacterial Specimens
There is probably no more universal technique in microbiology than the simple Gram stain. Early American textbooks and manuals describing bacteriological methods that were published between 1880 and 1915 consistently specified that bacteria be stained on cover slips. Many of these books provide g...
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Oceans of Crenarchaeota: a Personal History Describing This Paradigm Shift
The notion that Archaea are abundant in most natural habitats, especially the oceans, marks a fundamental sea change from a generation ago, one that met considerable resistance at first. The seeds of the idea trace to 1977, when Carl Woese at the University of Illinois and George Fox, now at the ...
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The Impact of Differential Regulation on Bacterial Speciation
Members of a family can be quite different from one another, displaying distinct preferences for foods, exhibiting dissimilar tolerance to low or high temperatures, and showing diverse reaction times to a new situation or condition. Interestingly, this is true not only for humans and other animal...
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