Researchers conduct first-ever study to characterize #microbiota in saliva of weaned #piglets.

#Firmicutes #Proteobacteria #16S_RNA #agriculture

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-characterize-microbiota-saliva-weaned-piglets.html

Hidden #biosphere discovered beneath world's driest hot desert
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hidden-biosphere-beneath-world-driest.html

Persistent #microbial communities in #hyperarid #subsurface habitats of the #Atacama Desert https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/4/pgae123/7646996

"In the upper 80 cm of playa sediments, microbial communities were dominated by #Firmicutes. Below 200 cm, a different microbial community was discovered, dominated by #Actinobacteria... this community might have colonized the soil 19,000 years ago, before being buried by playa deposits"

Hidden #biosphere discovered beneath world's driest hot #desert.

#eDNA #Atacama #soil #microbiome #Firmicutes #Actinobacteria

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hidden-biosphere-beneath-world-driest.html

"Here we used biochemical analyses and comparative genomics to identify BilR as a gut-microbiota-derived bilirubin reductase that reduces #bilirubin to #urobilinogen. We delineated the BilR sequences from similar reductases through the identification of key residues critical for bilirubin reduction and found that BilR is predominantly encoded by #Firmicutes species."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01549-x

Large-Scale Identification of Known and Novel RRNPP Quorum-Sensing Systems by RRNPP_Detector Captures Novel Features of Bacterial, Plasmidic, and Viral Coevolution

-in @MolBioEvol by Charles Bernard et al from Eric Bapteste

#Firmicutes #Bacillota #Rap

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40/4/msad062/7079777