Predators do more than consume prey. In #soil, #protist predation triggered shifts in microbial activity linking nutrient cycling with #microbial survival traits, including antimicrobial resistance and genetic mobility pathways. @dishant205.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New in ES&T: Protist predation rapidly altered soil microbial community structure and increased the expression of N and P cycling genes, antibiotic resistance genes, virulence factors, and mobile genetic elements. #SoilMicrobiology #Protists #MicrobialEcology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Protist Predation Rapidly Reshapes Soil Microbial Gene Expression Linked to Nutrient Processing, Resistance, Virulence, and Gene Mobility Traits

Protists are ubiquitous soil predators that regulate bacterial communities and biogeochemical cycling, yet how their predation alters expression of nutrient-cycling genes and traits linked to antibiot...

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Our Microfluidics-based single cell sorter is up and running #science #protists #cellsorting

These young researchers are working hard to understand the process of organic matter formation #soil #microbes #undergrads