Coral disease outbreaks are a growing threat to the continued health of coral reefs, which are already vulnerable ecosystems. Strains of the bacterium Vibrio coralliilyticus are known to infect…

An immunity-like system functions as a lysis control hub to promote gene transfer agent particle release from host bacterial cells, suggesting that bacterial immune systems may be co-opted to promote ...

Covert mortality nodavirus, a pathogen previously known to cause important losses in shrimp aquaculture, is identified as being a potential causative agent of an emerging and severe ocular disease in ...

Laboratory mice housed under specific pathogen-free conditions are the standard model in biomedical research. However, frequent germ-free rederivation and barrier housing restrict microbial exposure a...

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria through base-pairing interactions. But once...

A lactic acid bacterium isolated from kimchi may help promote the removal of nanoplastics from the body by binding to them in the intestine. Nanoplastics are ultrafine plastic particles measuring…

USC Dornsife The Urban Ocean Program

Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a deadly, waterborne coral disease. Since 2014, SCTLD has spread throughout Florida's Coral Reef and is now confirmed in 28 Caribbean countries and…

Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...

The Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Invertebrate Biology starting in Aug...

Wandering Sea Anemone from 'Eastern side of Bare Island, Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia' on July 4, 2021 at 12:21 PM by Erik Schlögl

The fossil record of chondrichthyans from the Pacific coast of South America is rich and diverse, with the Bahía Inglesa Formation distinguished as one of the most important in the region. Despite th...

The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help them recover?

The antibiotic polymyxin B requires bacterial metabolic activity to cause sufficient damage to the outer membrane to access the inner membrane, which it permeabilizes via an energy-independent mechanism to kill the cell.

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We are pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts is now open. Submissions are invited under the approved sessions, each aligned with one of the eight broad Symposium themes.

Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

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Proximity-ligation-based sequencing from 111 samples and 5 environments reveals that a substantial proportion of phages infect multiple species.

Vibrio vulnificus continues to sicken people in Louisiana as the state urges residents to take precautions.