Microbe Magazine

Cover: The growth and health of coral reefs depends on algal and microbial symbionts. The full microbial assemblage, called the coral holobiont, encompasses numerous microbial eukaryotes, archaea, bacteria, and viruses (see p. 226). (Image © John Anderson/Stockphoto.)
Cover: The growth and health of coral reefs depends on algal and microbial symbionts. The full microbial assemblage, called the coral holobiont, encompasses numerous microbial eukaryotes, archaea, bacteria, and viruses (see p. 226). (Image © John Anderson/Stockphoto.)
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TMV in 1930: Francis O. Holmes and the Local Lesion Assay
In the early 20th century, viral infections were diagnosed by the process of elimination—if a disease was not caused by fungi or bacteria, the agent was likely a virus. Similarly, viruses were then being described by their shortcomings: too small to view with a light microscope, not culturable, a...
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Analyzing Coral Reefs and Their Microbial Assemblages
Coral reefs harbor the largest biodiversity of any marine environment on Earth. Regrettably, these reefs now face threats of anthropogenic origin at global and local scales.
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In Pursuit of Billion-Year-Old Rosetta Stones
If I have learned anything about evolution, it is that the path life takes moves in mysterious ways. If someone had told me 20 years ago that I would wind up a professor of geobiology, I would have laughed. It certainly wasn't something I aspired to in college, where, as a German Studies maj...
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