Microbe Magazine

Cover: Stone-age cave paintings from the Chauvet Cave, France, which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago. Accumulating evidence of damage to cave paintings by fungi has lead to many such caves, Chauvet among them, being closed to visitors (see p. 102). (Image © Javier Trueba/MF/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
Cover: Stone-age cave paintings from the Chauvet Cave, France, which have been dated to between 32,900 and 30,000 years ago. Accumulating evidence of damage to cave paintings by fungi has lead to many such caves, Chauvet among them, being closed to visitors (see p. 102). (Image © Javier Trueba/MF/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
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Signaling between Bacteria and Their Hosts
One early challenge in life is to learn how to communicate, a skill that is not limited to the animal kingdom. Microorganisms communicate through cell-to-cell chemical signaling, called quorum sensing (QS), that was recognized as early as 1970 by J. Woodland Hastings and his collaborators at the ...
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Interactions with Partners Are Key for Oceanic Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria
Microorganisms shape biomes—in food webs of ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, and disease—interacting with other microorganisms and with multicellular plants and animals. In oceans, for example, microorganisms are the most abundant life form, inhabiting an environment where viruses and microorga...
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The Earliest American Books on General Bacteriology: 1880 to 1892
A Manual of Bacteriology (1892) by George M. Sternberg is considered the first book by an American to cover bacteriology comprehensively. Its size and scope certainly justify this distinction. The book “instantly became the standard reference in bacteriology,” wrote Patrici...
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