Microbe Magazine

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The Dynamics of Microbial Coevolution
We once thought of coevolution as a process that shapes species across eons. We now know that two or more species can coevolve very quickly, can change evolutionary directions many times, and can produce geographic mosaics of adaptation, sometimes at very local scales. We are getting better at pr...
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The Meteoric Rise of the Signaling Molecule Cyclic di-GMP
Although my students might think that all major components and important systems in biology are known, I tell them that nothing could be further from the truth. The field of cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) signaling is a case in point. Asking someone at an ASM General Meeting a decade or more ago about ...
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Toxoplasma gondii Parasites Take Control within Host Cells
The extraordinarily successful Toxoplasma gondii protozoan parasite is globally distributed, infects a vast range of mammalian and avian hosts, replicates in a variety of host cells, and can bypass its definitive host to be directly transmitted from one intermediate...
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