reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
this is amazing - "listen to wikipedia" as background music
Vous avez sans doute déjà lu Wikipédia. Mais avez-vous déjà écouté la douce mélopée des modifications effectuées sur Wikipédia ? C'est l'occasion, en cette veille des 25 ans de l'encyclopédie ! listen.hatnote.com#fr,en
Our story on plasmid streamlining is now published in PLoS Biology! With @andrewmatthews.bsky.social and @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social #MicroSky #Mevosky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Plasmid streamlining drives the extinction of antibiotic resistance plasmids under selection for horizontal transmission
Conjugative plasmids play an important role in the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes among pathogenic bacteria. This study shows that AMR loss in evolving populations is associated with t...
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coolest email i got all day was about this, what a great and amazing way to raise money for charity! everyone go and enter for the chance to name a phage!!
Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1
Preprint below has been a long time coming, here just in time for #microbio25 ! (if the train wifi lets me) With @andrewmatthews.bsky.social #MicroSky 🧵
Stealth plasmids: rapid evolution of deleted plasmids can displace antibiotic resistance plasmids under selection for horizontal transmission. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.30.646151v1
Looking for a PhD in phage ecology, metagenomics and defence systems? We have a fully funded PhD opportunity to join us at the University of York with great collaborators. See here for more info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...