LAKE BACTERIA SHED GENETIC CARGO
Scientists found lake bacteria in Michigan are shedding half their genes to survive. This helps them live with less energy and reproduce faster. What does this mean for the lake's ecosystem?
#LakeBacteria, #GenomicStreamlining, #MichiganScience, #MicrobialEvolution, #SAR11
https://newsletter.tf/lake-bacteria-shed-genes-michigan-survive-better/
Scientists in Michigan observed lake bacteria shedding half their genetic code. This is like a car getting rid of extra parts to become lighter and faster.
#LakeBacteria, #GenomicStreamlining, #MichiganScience, #MicrobialEvolution, #SAR11
https://newsletter.tf/lake-bacteria-shed-genes-michigan-survive-better/
'Zombie cells' in the sea: #Viruses keep the most common #marine #bacteria in check.
#SAR11 #bacteriophage #pelagiphage
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-zombie-cells-sea-viruses-common.html
New study challenges some dogmas about #marine #microbial life.
#ocean #microbiome #bacteria #SAR11 #Bacteroidete
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-dogmas-marine-microbial-life.html
If scientists want to find out how fast a population of bacteria grows, they often measure how their cell count changes over time. However, this method has a major flaw: it does not measure how fast the bacteria multiply or die. Yet these factors are very important for understanding ecological processes. That is why researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen have now taken a closer look at these processes during a spring bloom in the German Bight. In doing so, they challenge some previous dogmas.
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