The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.
This episode: Trends of declining lichen populations and biocrust cover overall match trends of increasing temperatures in Colorado dryland!
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Microbe of the episode: Cherry chlorotic rusty spot associated partitivirus
Takeaways:
Global...
Published 05/27/24
This episode: A virus partners with a parasitoid wasp to help exploit fruit fly victims!
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Microbe of the episode: Actinomadura livida
Takeaways
Parasitoid wasps have an interesting lifestyle: they inject their eggs into the larvae of other...
Published 03/11/24
This episode: Many organisms produce the smell of earth, geosmin, and many others can sense it–but why?
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Microbe of the episode: Acidianus spindle-shaped virus 1
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The smell of soil or earth is one of the most...
Published 01/29/24