microbiology Prof @uniinnsbruck, interested in fungi, protists, plant and algal pathogens and environmental interactions. mushroom girl posting daily #fungifacts
@[email protected], @gebirgsziege on Twitter (discontinued), @sigrid_neuhauser on Insta
Sigrid Neuhauser
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“The diversity of life on Earth is so grand, bizarre, and sprawling that even the existence of a single beetle can make your head spin. But it needs to *exist.* The very concept of an artificially generated video of wildlife is profane…”
Archaea the hornets of the microbial world. Discuss.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
TLDR: Archaeon kills bacterium with secreted phospholipase. Pretty nifty way to kill bacteria if you are a microbe with a very different lipid make-up, I reckon. No need to worry about accidentally killing yourself.
Eukaryogenesis was about more than a proteobacterium hitching a lift with an archaeon. Genes from other kinds of bacteria came along for the ride, stitched together with viruses. Paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
