Life does not end at the #sediment-#water-interface, it keep going down and down and down (less so on land). There is a #diversity continuum, and some of those #subsurface #microbial communities can be rather diverse.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq0645
"As the amount of #methane has risen in the atmosphere over the past 15 years, it’s also gotten lighter and lighter. The scientists used a model to analyze those changes and found that only large increases in #microbial #emissions could explain both the rising methane and its changing weight.
While microbes in wetlands are largely natural, the tiny creatures can also pump out methane from reservoirs, agricultural lands and landfills."
Some #coral species can be resilient to #marine heat waves by “remembering” how they lived through previous ones, research by Oregon State University scientists suggests. Evidence that the #ecological memory response is likely linked to the #microbial communities that dwell among the corals.
#MarineBiology #Environmental #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/12/mb12182301.html
Openly available #illustrations as tools to describe #eukaryotic #microbial #diversity
Beautiful and extremely useful #open #resource from Yana Eglit and @pjkeelinglab depicting eukaryotic microbes in exquisite detail.
Aren’t they lovely? Which is your favorite?
@PLOSBiology
#LoveMicrobiology
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002395
Scientists suspect #environmental factors could play a role – and substances like #pesticides and industrial #chemicals have been investigated for potential links to #neurodegeneration. Among the possible culprits are #microbial metabolites.
#Parkinson #Microbiology #Environmental #Neuroscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/mcb10112301.html
Scientists have established that these #microbial communities are also involved with the #immune system and play a role in mental health. Now, they can add helping grow a healthy #placenta during #pregnancy to the list of unexpected ways the gut #microbiome influences health and well-being.
#Microbiology #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/mcb10072301.html
#Forbes 
Sep 29, 2023
• Within 326 light-years of the #sun there are statistically 11,000 #Earth-size #planets 
in the habitable zone of K-type (sun-like) stars.
• The #SolarSystem is younger than 77% of close #star systems with rocky #exoplanets.
• Rocky exoplanets outnumbered giant Jupiter-like exoplanets when the #universe 
was young.
• Statistically, the closest life-harboring Earth-like #planet is 65 light-years 
distant.
This last claim depends on #microbial life 
arising as soon as it did on Earth – so, a billion years 
after becoming #habitable – on just 1% 
of rocky exoplanets. “If simple life is abundant, it is also old, as it would have emerged more than eight billion years ago in about one third of all life-bearing planets today” https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/09/29/life-should-exist-on-an-exoplanet-65-light-years-away-says-study
Other options include #mycelium #remediation - primarily with oyster mushroom inoculation, and/or #microbial remediation via application of fertilizer - we'd probably use #humanure #compost
the last option will probably be the final step regardless of other remediation efforts.
Unravelling the microbial world in European soils https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/unravelling-the-microbial-world-in-european-soils #bacteria #fungi #mushrooms
Patterns in soil #MicrobialDiversity across Europe: Maëva Labouyrie et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37937-4
"We observed an incredible diversity beneath our feet. We detected more than 25’000 #fungal and 79’000 #bacterial taxa. #Microbial richness & diversity are highest in more disturbed areas, such as #croplands and #grasslands, but potential #PlantPathogens are more abundant in these areas as well"
eye (finally) see a piece of my #prokaryotic #microbial memory of a (#cis #trans) "retinol-binding protein" coming back
#Maga #Musk #DeSantis #DNA #Trump #Twitter #GOP #Facebook #Google #Guns #GunViolence #UnitedStates #Covid #CBC #conservative
These #bacterial #biochemistry homologs, which are annotated as S41 peptidases, are single-domain proteins with sequence and structural similarity to each of the four human IRBP domains https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214815120
Testing hashtag #MAGA "fields" (AND/0R, #Bayesian, Hidden Markov Modeling #HMM) #covid #microbial #biochemical #metabalomic #connectomics fuel cell https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138448
The #gut #microbiome is an #ecosystem of hundreds to thousands of #microbial species living within the human #body. These populations affect our #health, #fertility, and #longevity. But there is still so much to learn about how these microbial species interact with our bodies and with each other.
#Microbiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/mcb03292301.html
The ability to genetically change bacteria is the key to researching the #microbial world. #Genome editing - i.e. processing the genome such as #DNA - is essential in order to develop new #antibiotics and to use #bacteria as miniature factories for the sustainable production of #chemicals, materials and therapeutics.
#CRISPR #RNA #Biology #Science #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/bio02092304.html
Good Morninig, I heard we do #introduction posts here. I am a #microbiologist working on #protist - #plant #interactions. I also dabble around with #fungi and other #microbial interactions. I work at the University of Innsbruck.
This profile is mainly for scientific content , if you want to follow my more general ramblings (mainly in German), #TheLittleThings and #OfficeWithAView you find me here @sigrid@mastodon.online
#introduction -- Hi there! I'm a #limnologist by training who started out with fish and ended up working on #aquatic #microbial #ecology of #glacier surfaces, #polar #lakes and abandoned coalmines at #Aberystwyth University in #Wales. My main #research interests are the impact of changing resources on community-level interactions and how microbes interact with their #environment. Also into #beekeeping #knitting #crafts #basketweaving #hamradio #SOTA #hiking #languages
