Persistent activity of aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria in anoxic lake waters due to metabolic versatility www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

#Microbes like comics, too! #RNA is the language, #extracellularvesicles serve as speech bubbles. Out now in PNAS by Joshua Mills, Susanne Erdmann et al. Read more: mpi-bremen.de/en/Microbial... Full paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #archaea #GTPase #EV #evolution

New case of alternative genetic code discovered! UAR reassignment in Palmarella but a standard code in its closest relatives. Our new paper with single cell #transcriptomics in APM #ciliates just out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ym... #ProtistsOnSky #protists #phylogenomics #geneticcode #anaerobes

How #archaea toggle the #nitrogen-uptake switch: By tightly regulating N uptake, they avoid overeating and thus wasting energy. New paper by Marie-Caroline Müller, Tristan Wagner et al in Communications Biology #enzyme #methanogen mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6155.... www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genomes from metagenomic sequencing data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #protistsonsky

"Culturing is a risky business," and it is also painful "but it is worth the effort". For someone working on protist cultivation that paper is pure motivation. Thank you! www.cell.com/trends/micro... #protistonsky

The protist cultural renaissance www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs

See these happy aspring marine scientists? You can be one of them! Apply now for our #MaxPlanck #MSc/#PhD program on #marine #microbiology IMPRS MarMic! marmic.mpg.de mpi-bremen.de Let's take an interdisciplinary journey into marine microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, evolution, & more!

Sneak peek of #bacteria at work within an animal cell: #MALDI-MS Imaging creates snapshots of metabolites revealing host-microbe interactions Published in #Nature Protocols by P. Bourceau, M. Liebeke, B. Geier et al @UniKiel @MarineMicrobio nature.com/articles/s41... mpi-bremen.de/en/The-metab...

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