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Vibrio Vulnificus @vibrio-vulnificus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr...
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Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...
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Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios
Join Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios, September 13-16, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.
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Vibrio Vulnificus @vibrio-vulnificus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Stunning, Is the cloud a true explosion or an impact? Is there information readily available on how much and what type of fuel(s) were on board? It got me thinking about the differences in combustion in the Martian atmosphere.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Not now, ticks. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Scientists are warning Canadians to get ready for a U.S. tick invasion this year | CBC News
Scientists say new species of ticks carrying troubling pathogens travelling our way from the northern United States at a rate of about 50 kilometres per year, including the lone star tick which can le...
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
If something can be destroyed by the truth, then let it - be it a person, a government, or an empire built on lies.
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Vibrio Vulnificus @vibrio-vulnificus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Flesh-eating virus kills four in Florida
The first fatalities in connection with the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus this year have been recorded.
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology
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Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This story started when we put two Vibrio species commonly found in the coastal oceans under the microscope. V. anguillarum cannot grow on alginate, an algal polysaccharide, but V. cyclitrophicus can. So how does the former species grow? The answer: By killing the ones that can #Microsky #T6SS
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Karla Satchell @karlasatchell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Thanks to Northwestern Feinberg communications for writing this nice article on our recent work for the newsletter. @vibrio-vulnificus.bsky.social
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Surround yourself with death and dying on a daily basis” -Epictetus, (Stoic Philosopher) “Say no more.” -RFK Jr (Roadkill connoisseur and Anti-epidemiologist)
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Harmful algal blooms are preceded by a predictable and quantifiable shift in the oceanic microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
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Harmful algal blooms are preceded by a predictable and quantifiable shift in the oceanic microbiome - Nature Communications
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose negative worldwide impacts that could be minimized through the development of a forecasting tool. Quantitative analysis of peptides produced by a coastal microbiome pr...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Even when we’re cast as villains, those of us working in infectious diseases still have a vital role to play. In this reflection, I share how I’m continuing to show up for patients, for public health, and for the next generation even when it’s hard. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...
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This Is How I Keep Showing Up
A infectious diseases physician’s reflections on trust, defiance, and public health in a time of outrage
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, bacteria, and viruses recovered from marine picocyanobacteria cultures based on Illumina and Qitan nanopore sequencing www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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Genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, bacteria, and viruses recovered from marine picocyanobacteria cultures based on Illumina and Qitan nanopore sequencing - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, bacteria, and viruses recovered from marine picocyanobacteria cultures based on Illumina and Qitan nanopore sequencing
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In 2016, the Kishony Lab at Harvard Medical School put together this demonstration of acquired antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria, creating a mega-Petri dish (2' x 4') with a stepped gradient of antibiotic. Seeing the mutants emerge & spread is an elegant demo of evolutionary change.
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The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
YouTube video by Harvard Medical School
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Invasive meningococcal disease is one of the scariest diseases, period. People can go from asymptomatic to dying within 24 hours. Even with appropriate care, 1 in 6 will die, and another 1 in 4 will have permanent disability including loss of limbs secondary to meningococcemia-provoked thromboses.
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Andrew Alverson @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Sigh. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Insights into global planktonic diatom diversity: The importance of comparisons between phylogenetically equivalent units that account for time
AbstractMetabarcoding has offered unprecedented insights into microbial diversity. In many studies, short DNA sequences are binned into consecutively lower
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ssolo.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Daphne Zohar @daphnezohar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Office of the U.S. Trade Rep. (USTR) has confirmed that pharmaceuticals are exempt from BOTH the 10% base rate tariff plus additional reciprocal tariffs. Small ray of hope for biotech (for now).
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Dor Salomon @drdorsalomon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our paper on vibrios isolated from Israel's coastal waters is now online in mSphere (now with a working link). We analyzed the pathogenic potential (genome sequences, toxicity, and antibiotic resistance) of 23 new isolates. 🦠 #T6SS #T3SS #MARTX journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Assessing toxicity and competitive fitness of Vibrio isolates from coastal waters in Israel | mSphere
The ocean’s surface water temperatures have increased in the past decades due to climate change. This increase correlates with the spread of Vibrio, a genus of aquatic bacteria, many of which are pathogens of humans and marine animals. Since Vibrio-...
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
In this "80 for 80," Storyteller Lynne Feldman is telling the story of #Auschwitz survivor Tova Irene Finklestein. Born in Dunajská Streda, #Czechoslovakia. #Holocaust #TeachTheShoah www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tlj...
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Lynne Feldman telling Tova Finkelstein
YouTube video by Teach the Shoah
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Great paper in Cell OLD NEUTROPHILS NEW TRICKS they process lipid rafts to bud off “LAND-Vs”—giant vesicles that block complement activation and inflammation via CD55—all while evading macrophage efferocytosis cellular recycling—reimagined—for the senior neutrophil www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 21/03/2025
🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Why are certain vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) strains taking over hospitals? Emergent lineages make bacteriocin T8—giving them a gut colonization edge over older strains Microbial competition shapes nosocomial evolution Mills et al Nat Microbiol #VRE #AMR www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🅱🅰🅳🅰🆂🆂 🅱🅰🅲🆃🅴🆁🅸🅰 This bacteria (𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴) was LIVING IN A DETERGENT The hyperthermophile 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳 can thrive at temperatures as high as 122°C (251.6°F), FAR EXCEEDING THE BOILING POINT OF WATER 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘪 CAN SURVIVE IN DISTILLED WATER FOR UP TO 16 YEARS
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Popular detergent recalled due to possible bacteria exposure
Customers can contact the manufacturer for a full refund.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Bacterial galvanotaxis: a neglected biological process www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs
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Bacterial galvanotaxis: a neglected biological process
Bacterial galvanotaxis, the directed migration in response to electric fields, remains an understudied yet intriguing phenomenon. This forum explores its history, independence from chemotaxis, and rol...
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Metabolism of CO and H2 by pioneer bacteria in volcanic soils and the phyllosphere academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 16/03/2025
A Review in Nature Reviews Microbiology examines how antibiotics influence bacterial metabolism and how metabolism, in turn, affects drug efficacy and the emergence and evolution of antimicrobial resistance. 🔒
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The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance
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Nik Thomas @nikthomas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our Tn-seq paper is out in PLOS Genetics! @plos.org We found a new Vibrio chitoporin and a key regulator of chitinolytic growth. Lots of other cool stuff too! Great work by Oriana Robinson and @landongetz.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Functional genomics of chitin degradation by Vibrio parahaemolyticus reveals finely integrated metabolic contributions to support environmental fitness
Author summary Vibrio species are key contributors to ocean carbon cycling by degrading and assimilating robust chitin polymers. These waterborne and seafood associated bacteria also infect humans lea...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New Nature Paper Garaude Lab U. Bordeaux 🇫🇷 Macrophages use phagolysosomal degradation of bacteria to provide carbon atoms and amino acids that are recycled into metabolic pathways, such as glutathione and itaconate biosynthesis, satisfying their bioenergetic needs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 27/01/2025
OUT NOW: Integrons are anti-phage defence libraries in Vibrio parahaemolyticus @themaxwelllab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Integrons are anti-phage defence libraries in Vibrio parahaemolyticus - Nature Microbiology
Integrons are genetic elements that capture and store gene cassettes in Vibrio species. Bioinformatic and molecular techniques show that these regions can be hotspots of phage defence systems.
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bid47.bsky.social @bid47.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
In the US maybe, much less so in the UK where such knowledge is much less valued.
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Vibrio Vulnificus @vibrio-vulnificus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I agree that science literacy should be disseminated, and is beneficial. But…advancing to post-doc level before transitioning is a huge economic opportunity cost for the individual. and I’d not expect many to rationally make that decision.
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Peter Kolchinsky @peterkolchinsky.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Rfk Jr & vaccine “skeptics” mislead when they say vaccines haven’t been tested vs placebo. The first vaccine of every kind is absolutely tested vs placebo. When it works, it’s unethical to test future versions vs placebo. Those are tested vs prior version. If better, then also better than placebo.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
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Karthik Anantharaman @karthik-a.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
New paper alert: Our 20-year study of viral ecology and evolution reveals viral roles in microbial dynamics, phage genome evolution over time, and key interactions with hosts. A big thank you to our awesome collaborators @quendi.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unravelling viral ecology and evolution over 20 years in a freshwater lake - Nature Microbiology
A long-term metagenomic time series reveals how viruses impact diversity, ecological dynamics and evolution of freshwater microbiomes.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 23/11/2024
We've long been able to find new phages and figure out what they interact with. But what about the other direction: if you have a gene, like an antibiotic resistance efflux pump, or a phage defense system, and you want to find phages that do or do not interact with it? Now you can!
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 21/11/2024
The first review article from my lab, helmed by @celiasouque.bsky.social, "From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance" is now online and open access at Annual Reviews Microbiology: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Our recent review “Climate change and Vibrio vulnificus dynamics: a blueprint for infectious diseases” was just published in PLOS Pathogens! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Climate change and Vibrio vulnificus dynamics: A blueprint for infectious diseases
Climate change is having increasingly profound effects on human health, notably those associated with the occurrence, distribution, and transmission of infectious diseases. The number of disparate eco...
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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Looking for a new target microbes for cultivation? Check out our new review on "Earth's most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes"! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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David Miller @biotechmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fixed.
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Phage papers @phagepapers.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Prophages in Vibrio. DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae202 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39423289
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Tailless and filamentous prophages are predominant in marine Vibrio - PubMed
Although tailed bacteriophages (phages) of the class Caudoviricetes are thought to constitute the most abundant and ecologically relevant group of phages that can integrate their genome into the host chromosome, it is becoming increasingly clear that other prophages are widespread. Here, we show tha …
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Tim Regan @timreganlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪 Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute! Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊 💡 Includes fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas 📍 Edinburgh, UK Apply👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Exploring Interactions between Mussels and Pathogenic Vibrio for Enhanced Shellfish Health and Food Safety at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Genomic Insight into Zoonotic and Environmental Vibrio vulnificus: Strains with T3SS2 as a Novel Threat to Public Health pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39597763
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/12/2024
Resistance to one antibiotic can make bacteria resistant or sensitive to another antibiotic, opening paths for combinatorial treatments. A study in Nature Microbiology presents an approach to systematically discover and understand such antibiotic relationships. go.nature.com/49of3Mk 🧪
This is figure 4, which shows collateral sensitivity and cross-resistance interactions between and within antibiotic classes.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Drivers of methane-cycling archaeal abundances, community structure, and catabolic pathways in continental margin sediments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
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