CellBioNewsMar 6, 2025

#Antimicrobial_resistance in #soil #bacteria without the use of #antibiotics: #Predatory interactions drive development.

#mighty_microbes #Myxococcus #predator-prey_interaction #community_ecology #microbiome

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-antimicrobial-resistance-soil-bacteria-antibiotics.html

Antimicrobial resistance in soil bacteria without the use of antibiotics: Predatory interactions drive development

Overuse of antibiotics is currently the primary reason for the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Kiel University, however, have shown that AMR can surprisingly be found in soil bacterial communities due to microbial interactions too, driven by a species of predatory bacteria.

Phys.org
Gleb EbertApr 17, 2024

Our colleagues of the #EvolutionaryBiology group at #ETHZurich have just published https://www.myxoee.org/, a website on #myxobacteria #ExperimentalEvolution. Anyone interested in the evolution of sociality, cooperation and predation should have a look!

#myxococcus #microbiology #bacteria #evolution

MyxoEE

Evolution experiments with myxobacteria – MyxoEEs – have been used to address many evolutionary questions and are summarised at myxoee.org

MyxoEE
Peter CockNov 25, 2022
@nevali #Myxococcus xanthus are awesome, made for great videos in seminar talks - I used to work on their internal signalling proteins
Show threadPeter CockNov 18, 2022
@phylogenomics Looks like my old friend #Myxococcus xanthus (NCBI:txid2818505) is now going to be under #Myxococcota instead of #Proteobacteria - the new phylum seems made for it 🦠❤️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxococcus_xanthus
Myxococcus xanthus - Wikipedia