Max Planck scientists in Marburg have used a synthetic microbial community to study the gradual evolution of mutualism. The study demonstrates for the first time in detail how an evolutionary loss of ...

The study of microbial ecology and holobiont evolution explores the dynamic relationships between microbial communities and their multicellular hosts across ecological and evolutionary timescales.

In this seminar, Dr. Mason will cover new discoveries in RNA-sequencing (metatranscriptomics) and DNA-sequencing (metagenomics) across dozens of cities on Earth as part of the MetaSUB Consortium, ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through the lens of scientific inquiry as a complex reservoir of microbial life ...

Planet Earth Evolution I'm an evolutionary biologist who investigates real-time evolution in bacteria. These are my 5 must-read science books. Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and ...