Ross Fitzgerald

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Microbiologist, Bacterial evolution, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution unlocks nutrient availability after a host switch

Staphylococcus aureus has undergone metabolic remodeling to adapt to the dairy niche.

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