3-Jun-2026
The road to better #health requires a map of the #microbes in your #mouth
There's a lot of buzz about the gut microbiome—the trillions of microbes that help us digest food and support the immune system. But your mouth is also home to its own highly specialized microbial community, and new research suggests that these oral microbes may play an equally important role in maintaining health.
New #ISEPpapers by @DEEMteam! Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03088-0
"Distant eukaryotic lineages convergently reverted from phagocytic predation to osmotrophy through co-option of ancestrally acquired bacterial genes and their subsequent mobilization via eukaryote-to-eukaryote horizontal gene transfer."
Microbes live everywhere. The ones that like the harshest environments, we call extremophiles, and there are few environments as harsh as salt lakes. Some microbes that survive in there dress up with an outer sheath to isolate themselves.
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.23.727376v1.full
#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Bacteria #Evolution #Symbiosis #Plastids
New #ISEPpapers! CSI-SSU: phylogenetic contamination screening of genomic datasets, demonstrated on The #Protist 10,000 #Genomes (P10K) Project https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-026-12977-4
The saprotrophic-symbiotic continuum in fungi
and the loss of rare microbiota through agricultural intensification
Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi. Francis Martin, Hao Tan, Current Biology : 2025 >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000624
Banerjee, S., Dasgupta, D. & van der Heijden, M.G.A. Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota. Nat Rev Microbiol (2026)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-026-01315-w >>
#soil #agriculture #microbiota #microbes #mycorrhizae #mutualism #symbiosis #saprotrophy #ecology #taxonomy #EcologicalSpectrum #organisms #LeafLitter #PlantMicrobeInteractions #MicrobialEcology
Image: #Fungi, Bellingen, NSW
🌫️🦠 Researchers from #ArizonaState University and #Susquehanna University collected #fog samples over 32 events across two years and found living #bacteria — mostly Methylobacterium — at concentrations comparable to seawater.
The #microbes appeared to be actively growing inside fog droplets and could break down formaldehyde much faster than previously observed in #cloud #water, suggesting fog acts as both a habitat and a natural air filter.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/fog-is-teeming-with-life-and-it-may-be-doing-us-a-surprising-favor
#microbiology #airquality #atmosphere #science #ecology #pollution #clouds #microbiome #nature
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